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Overrated Bandwidth

Digging down into India’s mobile networks

Move over download speeds. It's latency that matters in the smartphone age. A joint data project with Fastah

24/05/17

Rohin Dharmakumar

If you’re a consumer, how do you define a fast mobile network?

At the mobile network level, operators and regulators measure performance using “quality of service” benchmarks

Fastah offers open source APIs that help developers, in turn, build apps and services that can detect the state of mobile networks and work smoothly by adjusting various parameters

The Ken partnered with Fastah to access aggregate data from over half a million samples across 1200 unique users that it collected over March and April 2017 from all over India

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How’s your latency doing these days? Here’s how it compared for a sample set of Bengaluru’s mobile users across three of its largest operators: Don’t know what your latency is? Don’t worry, most people don’t. Because they’ve been used to measuring and comparing download speeds, the time taken to download a unit chunk of data,…

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