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The merged Vodafone-Idea won't have the sum of each operator's upload speed, but their leading speeds will reinforce one another. The benefits of combining spectrum could also lead to a boost in capacity which could improve speeds further for Vodafone Idea.

OpenSignal said that it analyzed its data for 4G availability across all of India’s 22 telecoms circles in the 90 days from the start of May 2018, and found Kolkata came top with a hugely impressive score of 90.7%.

Smaller cities such as Patna, Kanpur, Allahabad, Kolkata, Bhopal and Lucknow have better presenace of 4G service than the big metro cities or technology hub in India, said a report from UK-based OpenSignal.

India's fastest network is Airtel and Reliance Jio offer biggest coverage but it lags behind Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea in terms of 4G speeds, says OpenSignal

After the discontinuation of freebies and upgrdation of network capacity, the Reliance Jio speed are gradually increasing, says a report.

The Grameenphone and Banglalink are in the first place in terms of upload speed. Grameenphone is at the top in terms of 4G coverage.

Databricks and Informatic have partnered to introduced product integrations that can provide efficient data ingestion, simplified creation of high-volume data pipelines, and integrated data governance for data discovery.

Chennai is the king of 4G Video Load Time among the eight IPL cities with an average of 6.0 seconds. Of the other eight IPL cities, Kolkata rode in second with an average 4G Video Load Time of 6.2 seconds.

According to Peter Boyland, Analyst, OpenSignal, Indian telecom sector price war will ease in 2019 and operators are likely to bundle higher data and content for growth.

A high availability of 4G networks does not automatically translate to a great mobile network experience for smartphone users in India, said OpenSignal.