How To Find Best Network Coverage In My Area

Anybody living in India is has experienced shouting into a phone saying "Can yous hear me? Can you hear me now?", while you are walking around trying to find that one spot where the connection actually works.

The makers of the app Tiktik have tried to find a solution to this trouble using data from TRAI. The telecom regulator releases a lot of data about networks, speeds, and connectivity, and finding the relevant information for your area and your network can be a challenge, only Tiktik automates the process, so yous can find the best network in your surface area.

The complimentary app, bachelor on Android, requires a somewhat frightening number of permissions to run, including the ability to access your accounts, contacts, location, SMS, telephone, read and modify files, access storage, device ID, full network access, then on. That's because the app also helps you to first the processing of porting networks, and alter other settings as well, just it is still difficult to justify the level of admission beingness given, because that the chief function - of checking the network in your area, is accomplished past querying TRAI online. Here's what the app's Google Play listing folio has to say on why these permissions are needed:

Location: to identify the best mobile network wherever you are in India

SMS: to send toll-free SMS to protect you against spam callers & balance cuts. We receive SMS, don't read them. We need this for port, control SIM features.

Phone: to dial and check my all-time offers for yous.

Photos: to instantly share app insights with your friends. We will not access your personal files.

Identity & Device ID: to send a few of import notifications (not ads) to your email ID. No spam guaranteed.

Contacts & Call-Log: for the fun-insights. This characteristic works even on aeroplane mode, nosotros don't admission any personal information.

If yous're comfortable with the various permissions, so the app does actually work pretty well, and is nicely designed besides. When you showtime the app, you'll see a list of languages to choose from - viii in total - including English, Hindi, and other Indian languages.

The starting time screen subsequently that is a simple and easy to decipher screen that shows you the various networks in your expanse (picked through location detection), based on the information published past TRAI. This is based on TRAI's Myspeed app and that means there is fairly detailed data from around the country, peculiarly in urban areas.

We tested the app in both Bengaluru and Delhi, and saw consequent results which matched the data we could get from the TRAI site, so Tiktik is using live or at to the lowest degree recent information. So right at present, for example, data on Jio'south relative coverage in Mayur Vihar Stage 1 isn't available, but the boilerplate download speed is listed at higher up 10Mbps. For comparison, we also tried out Netflix's Fast.com, where the speed of our Jio connectedness (at the time of writing) was 8Mbps. Tiktik shows Vodafone as having a full force connection, with a speed between 5-10Mbps, the same equally Airtel, while Fast.com put our Vodafone connection at 8.7Mbps.

That's important because even on a minute to minute footing, there is enough of fluctuation in mobile data speeds and signal strength, so the information being given by Tiktik should be treated every bit indicative, non accented. As long as y'all remember that, it would exist helpful to use.

That's but the starting time part of what the app does however. On this screen itself, you'll see a door icon (the exit icon) which you can tap to send the MNP SMS to port out of your telco without any effort. The app too lets y'all figure out which telco to shift to, based on the network in your neighbourhood and what's the best plan available for you. The next tab(s) meanwhile shows you the best plans and services available from your telco(s), and you lot tin can also run across the talk time and data remaining on your SIM (assuming you accept a prepaid connection). Tiktik besides claims that the recharge offers it has provide meliorate savings. The app isn't ad-supported either, unlike many other free apps from India.

Finally, there's a tab labeled "fun", and it shows you the people you speak to the most. You tin meet charts breaking down whether you phone call that person or receive calls from them; you have "one call friends", and then on, all represented in boxes of different sizes depending on how much you contact them. We didn't find information technology to be particularly useful, merely if you're trying to analyse your calling behaviour, it could be handy.

All in all, Tiktik is a nice looking app that could be very useful if you are thinking of changing your operator. It'll find the best offers, the fastest networks, and everything happens through an intuitive interface. What nosotros didn't like is the permissions the app requires, though most of these can be explained.

Tiktik is available as a gratis download on the Play Store.