Over a month and nearly 2 crore subscribers later, Reliance Jio (RJio) seems to be facing more issues than just call drops. 

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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) data show that RJio's 4G speeds are in fact the lowest among all telecom service providers in India. 

The trend shows that the company's average 4G data speed stood at just 6.2Mbps. While Airtel is providing 4G data speed at 11.4Mbps, which is at the top of the list followed by Reliance Communication with 7.9Mbps. Marginal gap was seen between Idea Cellular and Vodafone India at with 7.6Mbps and 7.3Mbps, respectively. 

According to a India Today report, as per the test done by a speed test app, Ookla, the company's download speeds for 4G capable phones dropped 23% month-over-month. In the month of September, the mean download speed has falled from 11.31 Mbps to 8.77 Mpbs and now to 6.2 Mbps, as shown by Trai data. 

A Reliance Jio spokesperson said, “With reference to statistics published TRAI’s analytics website, we have performed an internal analysis of the same.  Based on this analysis, we believe that the comparison of Jio speeds with other operators has an inherent bias against Jio data usage."

Infact, while announcing its financial results today, the company in a regulatory filing said, "During the quarter, Jio announced the commencement of services, as per terms of its Unified License, with ‘Jio Welcome Offer’ which became effective from 5 September 2016. As part of the Jio Welcome Offer’, users have access to unlimited LTE data and national voice, video and messaging services along with the full bouquet of Jio applications and content, free of cost up to 31 December 2016. All the Jio applications, including JioTV, JioCinema, JioMusic, JioMagazine, JioNews, which bouquet is worth Rs. 15,000 for an annual subscription, have been provided complimentary for all active Jio subscribers up to 31 December 2017."

On October 9, the company had claimed that it has created 'a world record' by crossing the 16 million subscriber mark in just 26 days. 

"Reliance Jio growing by more than half a million users a day", said Anshuman Thakur, Strategy and Planning head of Reliance Jio told to Bloomberg.

On its launch day, Ambani had said that his  new telecom venture would aim to acquire 100 million customers "in the shortest possible time and create a new world record". This would translate into a data usage of 250 crore gigabyte per month, he had then said.