They are conducting 5G trials and have shown impressive 5G speeds. However in recent months, all operators have been working behind the scenes to help drive 5G commercialization. Currently, India clearly lags behind the markets that have already begun the 5G deployments, such as the U.K.Additionally, the NPS score (the relative weight of a brand’s promoters and detractors) also rose from -46.37 in March, to -25.93 in June.
It’s upload speeds and Consistency Score™ (% of samples which exceed 5 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload) also saw considerable improvements. The operator’s median download speeds have increased from 5.96 Mbps in March 2021 to 13.08 Mbps in June.
The data mapped by Ookla is already showing an increase in Jio’s performance since March 2021.It’s impossible to say exactly how fast 5G will be for the average Indian user, given uncertainty over exact spectrum allocations and rollout plans (including the radio access network and improvements to backhaul and transport networks), but it’s safe to say 5G will bring a considerable bump to overall speeds in the country. According to Ookla, as of June 2021, 64.5 per cent of 4G users in India could expect to achieve download speeds in excess of 5 Mbps, the speed required to stream HD video content, up from 52.9 per cent in March.
The findings are based on Speedtest® data from other markets in Asia that have recently launched 5G (Thailand and the Philippines both launched 5G in Q1 2020 and Q2 2020 respectively) that shows the differential between 4G-LTE and 5G speeds was on average approximately 9-10x in Q2 2021.