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India has lowest 4G speed globally, Singapore tops chart: Report

The 4G internet speed in Navi Mumbai has left the other cities of the countries far behind.

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The 4G internet speed in Navi Mumbai has left the other cities of the countries far behind. According to the report by  OpenSignal, Navi Mumbai 4G's internet speed has reached 8.72Mbps, while Chennai doubled its 4G speed to 8.52Mbps from 4.4Mbps in March 2017. 

Kolkata ranked third on the list with a speed of 8.46Mbps. 

The 4G market had grown in India after the disruptive entry of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Jio in the telecom sector. 

"Driven by fierce competition, the Indian 4G market is growing rapidly, and the country now has one of the largest LTE footprints in the world. The shockwaves from the debut of Reliance Jio are still being felt, with no less than three mobile mergers on the table, meaning the fastest 4G city rankings are likely to change significantly in the coming months," the report said. 

However, the report also revealed that India has the lowest 4G speed in the world. 

India ranks 14th in the 4G availability chart with 86.26 percent availability, which is a good sign. But India's average 4G speeds put the country at the bottom of the chart, the report said. 

With an average speed of just 6.07 Mbps, India is placed below countries like Algeria (8.65 Mbps), Indonesia (8.92 Mbps), the Philippines (9.49 Mbps), and Thailand (9.60 Mbps).

Singapore with 44.31Mbps has the fastest 4G speed in the world. 

Meanwhile, the race to bring super-fast 5G wireless services to market is heating up with the first commercial deployments of the much-anticipated technology expected at the end of the year.

Talk about 5G's potential to pave the way to a world of self-driving cars, lightening-fast video downloads and smart cities have dominated the Mobile World Congress for years.

But at the event in Barcelona this year, companies were full of concrete announcements of early versions of 5G uses.

The first commercial 5G roll-outs begin this year and next in the United States, Korea and Japan, and the wireless industry is counting on the new technology to trigger a wave of growth in equipment sales and mobile services.

China's Huawei unveiled in Barcelona what it said is the world's first commercial chipset that meet the standards of 5G wireless networks, which are better suited for virtual reality and high definition video. 

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