Chennai has been declared the king of 4G video load time among the eight IPL cities with an average of just 6 seconds for a download on smartphones, global mobile analytics company Opensignal said on Thursday.
Kolkata came second with an average time of 6.2 seconds,followed by Hyderabad at 6.4 seconds for a 4G video load. Bengaluru andChandigarh scored under the 7-second mark, with Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur makingthe tail.
When it comes to national average, “Chennai wasn’t thebest city in India for loading video on smartphones. Of the 50 cities weanalyzed, Thiruvananthapuram came top with an average 4G Video Load Time ofjust 5.8 seconds, pushing Chennai into second place,” said Opensignalreport. Opensignal ranked India’s biggest cities basedon 4G video load time, which measures the average time taken for a mobile videoto load and for the picture to start moving. “As mobile habits change andbig data bundles become more affordable, millions of Indians are turning totheir smartphones as their main way of watching video,” said thereport. The report found that India’svideo experience is moving in the right direction, as all four of the country’skey 4G operators scored a “Fair” rating — “an improvement on the’Poor’ ranking they received when we first analyzed Video Experience in thecountry six months ago”. “However, even a ‘Fair’ rating means load times are sluggish; stopsand stutters mid-stream are common and connections often have trouble copingwith higher-resolution formats,” the report added.