Higher number of users strain 5G speeds in India; Reliance Jio negatively impacted: Opensignal

NEW DELHI: The rapid deployment of 5G pan-India is coming under strain as more and more users connect to the latest mobile networks, according to an Opensignal report, which says that the country’s top telecom operator Reliance Jio’s 5G performance has been negatively impacted compared to rival Bharti Airtel.

“Given the additional load on the 5G network both in terms of the number of subscribers and data traffic, not surprisingly, India’s national 5G download speed score decreased from 304Mbps in Q1 2023 to 280.7Mbps in Q4 2023,” Sylwia Kechiche, Senior Director of Industry Analysis at Opensignal, said in a recent report.