Telecom Subscriber Base

Vodafone continues to lose subscribers, Airtel's additions at 6-month high, Jio retains the highest user base

The telecom subscriber base in the country declined by 117 crore in October due to Vodafone Idea losing a large number of mobile customers during the month, as per a report of sector regulator Trai published on Monday. Only Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added new customers in October while all other players mainly Vodfone Idea and state-owned BSNL lost a large customer base. Reliane Jio and Bharti Airtel jointly added 22.1 lakh mobile customers while Vodafone Idea (VIL) lost 35 lakh mobile customer, BSNL lost 5.19 lakh and MTNL lost 3591 mobile subscribers. "The number of telephone subscribers in India decreased from 1,171.92 million at the end of September '22 to 1,170.45 million at the end of October '22, thereby showing a monthly decline rate of 0.12 per cent," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in the subscribers report for October 2022. Total mobile subscribers decreased to 114.36 crore at the end of October from 114.54 crore at the end of September.

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Jio gained 9.7 million mobile subscribers in the June quarter, after witnessing a decline for three consecutive quarters

Telecom subscribers' base declined to 1.16 billion in February this year, with Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea losing customers in the mobile services segment during the period.

Reliance Jio led active wireless subscriber additions in July at 6.1 million, while Bharti Airtel's active user adds stood at 2.3 million, according to latest data by TRAI. Riding on the strong gains, Jio has scaled up its active subscriber market share, with its user tally on this count pegged at 346.49 million, analysts said crunching July telecom subscription numbers released by the sector regulator. Motilal Oswal, in its report, said that Reliance Jio had active subscriber additions of 6.1 million (as against 2.4 million additions in June) reaching about 346 million users in July. "RJio gained 40 basis points in active subscriber market share and now shares market leadership position with Bharti," it said. Bharti saw active subscriber additions of 2.3 million to touch 346 million, although its active users adds were slower than last month (2.4 million additions in June). Its active subscriber market share improved by 10 basis points to 35 per cent, the report said. "VIL's ...

Both Airtel and Vi lost 4.6 million and 4.3 million subscribers, respectively

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The company's subscriber base in Mumbai went up from 8.9 million in January this year to 10.47 million in February

Western UP alone accounted for over 3.7 million of the 3.8 million plus gross subscriber addition in January

Telecom subscriber base in the country fell marginally to 1,173 million in December 2020

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The telecom industry's 'active' subscriber base rose by nearly 2.5 million in October 2020 to touch about 961 million

Subscribers of Bharti Airtel and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) rose by 922,946 and 439,318, respectively.

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The mobile subscriber base declined to 1.15 billion at the end of January 2018 from 1.167 billion at the end of December 2017, down 1.33 per cent