Mobile Subscribers

Airtel wraps up hike in entry-level plans in all 22 circles: Morgan Stanley

Discontinuation of the Rs 99 minimum recharge plan expected to raise mobile biz revenue by 1.5%

Digi gender divide worsened in India in recent years, says report

Gender gap score declined between 2014 and 2021

Jio, Airtel up subscribers tally, Vi loses 1.82 mn users in Nov: Trai data

Telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel cumulatively gained nearly 25 lakh mobile subscribers in November even as troubled Vodafone Idea lost nearly 18.3 lakh customers, according to data by sector regulator TRAI. India's largest telco Reliance Jio cemented its lead in the market adding 14.26 lakh net subscribers in November, whereas Airtel added 10.56 lakh users. At the end of November 2022, Jio's mobile subscriber tally stood at 42.28 crore, the levels rising from 42.13 crore during the previous month. Bharti Airtel's subscriber gains pushed up mobile user count of the Sunil Mittal-led company to 36.60 crore in November. In sharp contrast, cash-strapped Vodafone Idea lost 18.27 lakh subscribers during the month in reference, tempering its subscriber base to 24.37 crore in November. As per TRAI data, the total broadband subscribers increased to 825.38 million at the end of November 2022 with a monthly growth rate of 0.47 per cent. Top five service providers constituted

Mobile user base dips first time in 7 months, shrinks by 3.6 mn in Sept

Rural India saw subscriptions fall by 3.7 million. Urban barely offset that with a rise of 540,000

Tariff hike boost helps Reliance Jio log 24% jump in net profit

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

Reliance Jio adds over 3.1 mn mobile subscribers in May: TRAI data

Reliance Jio cemented its lead in the Indian telecom market as it gained over 31 lakh mobile subscribers in May, as per data released by the sector regulator on Tuesday

Active mobile subscribers fall in April after five mths, 7.5 mn users lost

Airtel and Vodafone Idea down by 3.1 mn and 3.8 mn users respectively; Jio's base remains flat

India's mobile subscriber count down by 12.8 mn in Dec 2021: Trai data

Reliance Jio lost about 12.9 million wireless subscribers, and that pulled down its mobile subscriber tally to 415.7 million in December 2021

Jio adds 2.01 mn users in November, Bharti Airtel 1.3 mn as per TRAI data

Vodafone Idea continues to lose customers and in November its subscriber base shrank by 1.8 million

The Telecom Churn: Requests for mobile number portability peak again

Indian mobile consumers have made close to 30 million MNP requests each quarter in the last three, or in other words, close to 90 million requests in the January - September 2021 period

Jio gains 649,000 users in August, Airtel adds 138,000, shows Trai data

Reliance Jio's mobile base stands at 443.8 million, that of Bharti Airtel's is 354.1 million and Voda Idea 271 million

All 26 Airtel telecom circles show identical subscriber fall of 1.3% in May

At an all-India level, Airtel subscribers were down in May by 4.6 million, or 1.3%

Mobile subscriber additions muted in Apr due to Covid lockdown: Analysts

The telecom sector's mobile subscriber net additions moderated to about 2.2 million (22 lakh) in April this year, with analysts blaming the 'muted' numbers on the second wave of COVID and lockdowns. After a strong fourth quarter of 2020-21, where the industry added 27.2 million subscribers, April was a "weak month" with only 2.2 million net additions, UBS said in its report on Tuesday. "We attribute this to the beginning of the second wave of COVID," a UBS note said. As per data released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Bharti Airtel added only 0.5 million (5 lakh) subscribers in April, against 4.8 million net additions by larger rival Reliance Jio. Troubled Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) shed 1.8 million subscribers in April after showing some improving momentum in February and March. While Jefferies' report observed that the sector's reported subscriber additions had "moderated" to 2 million due to lockdowns, a note by ICICI Securities said user addition had slowed on .

Indian women less likely than men to own a mobile, but are catching up

Goa is the state where the highest number of women use mobile phones themselves

Airtel adds 4.37 mn users in Nov, Voda Idea loses subscribers: TRAI data

India''s largest telecom operator Reliance Jio''s subscriber base stood at 40.82 crore as on November 2020, as per monthly telecom subscription data released by sector regulator TRAI

Reliance Jio looks beyond mobile operations to monetise digital platforms

With subscriber additions slowing, the price-competitive player is looking beyond its mobile operations to monetising its digital platforms. But that's where the competition is acute

Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel losses were gains for Jio and BSNL in December

Vodafone Idea and Airtel lost 3.6 million and 11,050 users, respectively

AGR order: Why Jio is set to gain more than Airtel as Voda faces collapse

Vodafone has 304 million subscribers of which 45 per cent are data subscribers

India to have 920 mn mobile users by 2025, 88 mn 5G among them: GSMA

It said there were close to 750 million unique subscribers at the end of 2018 and expected to reach almost 920 million by 2025

Mobile user base dips 22 mn in March, suffers biggest fall since April 2018

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio, however, continued to add wireless subscribers; gains 9.49 million users during the month under review