Reliance Jio Claims Foul Over Airtel’s Fastest 4G Network Claims

EEver since mobile data begin to dominate the telecom industry, companies have been trying to outpace each other by trumpeting the speeds their networks are generating whether it’s on television commercials or social media campaigns. Airtel, in particular, has been aggressively advertising its network as the “The Fastest 4G Network Ever” for over a year across the country. However, we’ve learned from people familiar with the matter, that Reliance Jio is unhappy with Airtel’s claims as it looks flawed due to a drastic bug found in Ookla’s Speedtest app.

The defect in Ookla’s Android app has been displaying incorrect results whenever you run a speedtest on a Dual SIM handset. It only takes into account the network on which the calls have been assigned irrespective of the data settings. Hence, for instance, if you’ve configured Airtel for calls and Reliance Jio for data, it will show the network speeds of Airtel no matter on which SIM slot it has been inserted. Considering the fact that Ookla is currently the leader in the speedtest industry responsible for a significant amount of evaluations and leaderboards, this is quite a major flaw which has gone unnoticed for a long time.

 

We, personally ran the tests a couple of times in various scenarios as well as smartphones and found the allegations to be completely true. 

It will be interesting to see how this pans out and what Airtel and even Ookla has to say about the matter.

We’ll continue updating this article once we get any official word from the parties involved. So, stay tuned for that.