Indian broadband speed improves ever so slightly

19th September 2021
Indian broadband speed improves ever so slightly

New Delhi, September 19, 2021: Indian fixed broadband download speeds reached  a  mean speed of 62.45 Mbps in the month of August, finds global leader in mobile and broadband network testing applications, Ookla,  in its Speedtest Global Index for  last month.
This is   the highest speed  ever,  India has achieved, on the Global Index report, to  maintain its global ranking on 68th spot in the fixed broadband speeds for  the month of August 2021. 
India’s overall performance in mobile download speeds also registered a slight increase from 17.77 Mbps in July 2021 to 17.96 Mbps. However, the country still dropped four spots, in the global ranking for mobile speeds, from 122 to 126, owing to the better performance shown by countries like Uzbekistan, Colombia, Belarus and Côte d'Ivoire. 
Fastest
United Arab Emirates and Singapore are on the top spot in mobile broadband and fixed broadband with a mean download speed of 195.52 Mbps and 262.20 Mbps respectively. Cuba and Liberia along with the Marshall Islands registered the highest growth in mobile download speed and fixed broadband speed respectively, in the month of August 2021. 
Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index compares Speedtest data from around the world each month. Data for the Global Index comes from the hundreds of millions of tests taken by real people using Speedtest every month to test their Internet performance.