

Both the UAE and South Korea also made improvements over their December results as Ookla showed them with 177.52Mbps and 169.03Mbps speeds, respectively, at that time. Use Speedtest by Ookla to easily, quickly and accurately. Globally, the Speedtest Global Index by Ookla shows that the UAE and South Korea surpassed Qatar to reach the first and second positions with an average mobile download speed of 183.03Mbps and 171.26Mbps in January, respectively. Speedtest by Ookla is a free tool for testing and monitoring any mobile internet connection speed. India's average mobile download speed dropped from 12.91Mbps to 12.41Mbps in January However, latency rate in the country remains constant to 51 milliseconds in the last two months. The country had 4.97Mbps of average upload speed in December, as per the previous data released by Ookla. Alongside download speed, average upload speed in the country also dropped over 4.2 percent to 4.76Mbps. The data available on Ookla's Speedtest Global Index for the month of January 2021 shows that average mobile download speed in India dipped over 3.8 percent to 12.41Mbps from 12.91Mbps in December. Unlike India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Korea saw a growth in their mobile Internet speeds that brought them to the first and second position. However, fixed mobile broadband speeds in India saw a marginal growth that helped retain the 65th position on the global index.

The data shared by the analytics firm revealed that the country dropped to the 131st position globally from 129th in December for its slower mobile Internet speeds. Mobile Internet speeds in India have continued to drop on Ookla's Speedtest Global Index in January.
