Increased data consumption but no decline in speed during second Covid wave: Opensignal

Opensignal measured its smartphone customers’ weekly common cell information consumption and obtain velocity expertise from the week beginning on December 30, 2019, to the week ending on Might 2, 2021.

Within the final three weeks of April this 12 months, when the nation was within the grip of the second wave of Covid-19 infections, common information consumption soared between 19.9% and 22.7% in contrast with the previous months. This may be attributed to individuals being confined to their properties on account of lockdowns. However in contrast to final 12 months, the cell customers didn’t witness the deterioration of knowledge speeds as cell operators had ready their networks to take the elevated load.

As per cell analytics agency Opensignal, in 2020, cell customers had witnessed as much as 24.8% decline of their common obtain speeds through the six weeks between the final weeks of March 2020 and Might 2020 as information consumption soared between 26.8% to 30% when the nation was underneath strict lockdown.

“Nonetheless, this time, we noticed little change within the common obtain velocity expertise, exhibiting that cell operators efficiently ready their networks to deal with the elevated information demand by their customers as a result of second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic,” OpenSignal stated.

Opensignal measured its smartphone customers’ weekly common cell information consumption and obtain velocity expertise from the week beginning on December 30, 2019, to the week ending on Might 2, 2021.

In India, smartphone customers, on common, consumed the same quantity of cell information all through the preliminary weeks of 2020, and their cell speeds didn’t change considerably. Nonetheless, because the Indian authorities launched strict lockdown measures in March 2020, OpenSignal noticed a pointy enhance within the common cell information consumed by our smartphone customers weekly — 26.8% to 30.1% greater than firstly of 2020.

The elevated cell information consumption lasted for six weeks between the final weeks of March 2020 and Might 2020, earlier than it step by step decreased in the direction of pre-lockdown ranges. Concurrently, customers noticed vital declines of their common obtain speeds — as much as 24.8%, in comparison with the primary week of 2020.