With the entrance to free 4G data services and moderately speedier connections, Reliance Jio cell phone users are avoiding Wifi. As per a review led by UK based OpenSingnal, during September to November 30, 2016, the three months time frame in which Jio has been accessible to the broad open, its users connected with Wi-Fi organizes by and large 8.2% of the time, which is well beneath India’s 29.8% normal time on Wi-Fi.

London headquartered, OpenSignal, which has some expertise in wireless coverage mapping with the assistance of group sources data on carrier signal quality from users who have its buyer mobile application introduced anticipated these numbers on the premise of 70,000 Jio cell phone users who have joined the OpenSignal people group, running a huge number of 4G accessibility, speed and idleness tests.

“Wifi has turned into an imperative versatile innovation in a significant part of the world. Our late Global State of Mobile Networks report demonstrates that in 46 nations cell phone users invest more energy associated with Wifi than they do to mobile data systems like 3G and 4G. Be that as it may, that is not the situation for Jio clients, who practically appear to be purposely avoiding Wifi,” said the report.

“Taking a gander at our data from September 1, 2016 to November 30, 2016 Jio users connected with Wifi networks by and large 8.2% of the time. That is well underneath India’s 29.8% normal time on Wifi from our worldwide report,” said the review.

As per the review, the huge calculate empowering cell phone utilization is execution. “Everything being equivalent, individuals have a tendency to incline toward the quickest connections as services like video gushing perform better on high-transmission capacity joins. At the point when gone up against with moderate 2G or 3G data connections, cell phone users will chase for Wifi to enhance their data encounter. Yet, for Jio’s situation it has no 2G or 3G systems. Additionally, Wifi is just great as the broadband connection that serves it, and India’s normal broadband rates are the slowest in Asia,” said the report, including that since Jio’s users are as a matter of course fighting with 4G organizes just, they have minimal motivation to search out Wifi, particularly if those Wifi connections may turn out slower than LTE.

It’s just been a couple of months since Reliance Jio propelled its new LTE-just mobile services, however it’s as of now bringing about a remarkable mix. Jio has taken advantage of a repressed interest for modest mobile data services by offering to a great degree modest networks, as well as by tossing out an early on offer that incorporates free 4G data for the rest of 2016. It’s since developed that network into the start of 2017; however it has begun restricting users to 1 GB a day.

Since September it has joined 50 million users and has set off a value war among India’s built up mobile operators.

Here’s how the major operators in India compared in Wifi usage:

Time on Wifi by operator

Jio 8.2%

Idea 24.1%

Telenor 24.3%

Aircel 24.9%

Airtel 27.1%

Reliance 28.1%

Tata DoCoMo 30.4%

BSNL 31.1%

Vodafone 31.3%