Reliance Jio's 4G speed jumped 50% in last 6 months: Report

New Delhi: Reliance Jio's average data speed in the last six months increased by 50 percent, a blog post by OpenSignal has said.

“In the last six months, Jio’s typical 4G download has ballooned from 3.9 Mbps to 5.8 Mbps — that’s almost a 50% increase in speed, which is frankly astonishing,” the blog said.

Jio completed one year of commercially offering its telecom services across the country early this month.

The blog found that Jio's average speed began to increase after the company started charging for its services and took down its freebie offers.

After a period of 170 days since its inception in September 2016, Jio started charging customers for its services in April.

“After an uptick in February, Jio’s speeds leveled out at around 4.2 Mbps between the test periods ending in March and April. But as soon as Jio’s free data offers concluded on April 1, we started recording a steady rise in average 4G speed all the way till the end of July,” OpenSignal said.

Meanwhile, the data released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) early this month showed that  Jio clocked the highest average data speed for the month of July.

It was the seventh consecutive month for which the operator has topped the TRAI speed chart compared to incumbent players Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular.

Jio clocked average download speed of 18.331 mbps for the month of July, compared to Airtel at 9.266 mbps, Idea Cellular at 8.833 mbps and Vodafone India at 9.325 mbps.