


Ookla data also showed that 5G availability – the proportion of users with 5G-capable devices that use 5G network – had increased 55 times between September 2022, when 5G availability stood at 0.1%, and January 2023, when it reached 5.5%.ĭuring the latest quarterly call, Airtel shared that about 11% of its smartphones are 5G ready. India is also catching up with the likes of Turkey (a 30.98Mbps median download speed/65th place globally), South Africa (34.71 Mbps/58th place), and Brazil (35.85 Mbps/57th place), according to Ookla. This puts India ahead of some of the G20 countries, such as Mexico, Russia, and Argentina, and its neighbors: Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan,” it said in the report. “As a result, India’s position on the Speedtest Global Index improved by 49 places from 118th in September 2022 to 69th in January 2023. On a pan-India level, Ookla said that median download speeds have increased by 115% since before the launch of 5G, from 13.87Mbps in September 2022 to 29.85Mbps in January 2023. Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO of Bharti Airtel Limited, mentioned during the latest quarterly results call that “between 25% to 35% of traffic is already getting offloaded on 5G from 4G.” Airtel deployed 5G in a Non-Standalone mode (5G NSA) – the operator stated that commercial trials using NSA give a 30% higher coverage than SA. You can disable Web Speed in the extension settings.In comparison, early adopters of Airtel’s 5G network, based on the non-standalone (NSA) architecture, experienced media download speeds ranging from 78.13Mbps in Kolkata to 268.89Mbps in Delhi in January 2023, according to the firm, which added that the telco seems to be offloading capacity from 4G to 5G. Track prior tests with detailed reportingĬhrome will ask for permission to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit." Speedtest also measures how fast websites load with Web Speed, and it uses this permission to know how long it takes a given website to load.Troubleshoot or verify the speed you were promised.Get your ping, download, and upload speeds within seconds.Speedtest by Ookla looks like the standard webpage associated with Ookla's Speedtest except smaller. Speedtest by Ookla will measure how fast the pages you visit load with Web Speed, a neat little feature. Available for Google Chrome or from the Microsoft Store. Speedtest by Ookla is one of the most popular online speed tests for your internet connection.
