(Karachi) India trails behind Pakistan when it comes to 4G mobile download speeds during the period of July to September 2020, The Hindu reported.

As per the Ookla Speedtest stats, Pakistan has outnumbered most of the South Asian countries, including India despite the fact that India has one of the biggest telecom operators in the world.

The report stated that Pakistan has 39.7 percent faster mobile download speeds than India. India has the slowest mean upload speed on the list at 4.18Mbps, it added.

The mobile speedtest during the three-month period ranked Pakistan at 116th position globally as compared to India’s 131st and Bangladesh’s 133rd position.

In fixed broadband, Pakistan is ranked 159th while India is ranked 70th and Bangladesh is ranked 98th globally. Both India and Pakistan showed considerable improvement in mean download speeds over mobile when comparing the third quarter of last year to the same period this year.

India saw an 11.6 percent increase while Pakistan’s mean mobile download speeds increased by 24.1 percent during the same period. Bangladesh saw a smaller increase of 6.3 per cent in mean download speed over mobile.

Similarly, Pakistan showed improvement in upload speeds as compared to last year while it remained mostly flat across South Asia’s largest countries.

Looking specifically at performance over 4G LTE, Pakistan’s mean download speed over 4G comes in 51.3 percent faster than India’s 12.05Mbps. Bangladesh closely followed India for download speed. India showed the slowest mean upload speed over 4G at 4.25Mbps — 65.6 per cent slower than Pakistan.