As the country prepares for the 5G era, India has dropped four places globally, the overall fixed average broadband Speed - from 72nd to 76th in the month of April, claims a new report.
Overall average stable download speed in India is 48.15 . slightly less than mbps According to Ookla, up to 48.09 Mbps in March, up to 48.09 Mbps in April global Leader in Network Intelligence and Connectivity Insights.
However, India recorded an average mobile download speed of 14.19 Mbps which is better than 13.67 Mbps in March.
With this, India is now up two places in its global ranking and is ranked 118th as per the report.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Singapore led the mobile broadband and fixed broadband categories with average download speeds of 134.48 Mbps and 207.61 Mbps, respectively.
Ukraine and Papua New Guinea recorded the highest increase in rank on Ookla’s ‘Speedtest Global Index’ for average mobile and fixed broadband performance, respectively, in the month of April.
The Global Index’s data comes from millions of tests performed by real people using Speedtest every month to test their Internet performance.
The report came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a self-made 5G test bed in the country.
Noting that 5G technology will facilitate governance and bring about a positive change in ease of doing business in many sectors, Prime Minister Modi said that it will create more jobs in many sectors.
He said 6G service would be rolled out by the end of this decade, with a task force already working on the project.