Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel Added 19.8 Lakh Cell Subscribers in February: TRAI

Telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added 19.8 lakh cellular subscribers month-on-month in February, at the same time as Vodafone Idea misplaced 20 lakh clients, based on information launched by TRAI on Thursday.

India’s largest telecom participant Reliance Jio added the utmost variety of cellular subscribers at about 10 lakh, taking its wi-fi subscriber tally to 42.71 crore customers in February, as towards 42.61 crore in January.

Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel gained 9.82 lakh cellular customers throughout February and ended the month with a wi-fi subscriber base of 36.98 crore.

Vodafone Idea misplaced 20 lakh subscribers within the wi-fi class as its cellular subscriber base shrunk to 23.79 crore, as per information from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

“…the total Broadband Subscribers increased from 839.18 million at the end of January-23 to 839.33 million at the end of February-23 with a monthly growth rate of 0.02 percent,” the discharge mentioned.

The prime 5 service suppliers constituted 98.38 p.c market share of the whole broadband subscribers on the finish of February 2023.

“These service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm 435.20 million, Bharti Airtel 239.70 million, Vodafone Idea 123.74 million, BSNL 24.92 million and Atria Convergence 2.14 million,” based on the discharge.

Overall, whole wi-fi subscribers decreased to 1,141.96 million (114.1 crore) on the finish of February 23 from 1,143.02 million (114.3 crore) on the finish of January 2023, a month-to-month decline charge of 0.09 p.c.

“Wireless subscriptions in urban areas decreased from 627.13 million at the end of January 23 to 626.37 million and wireless subscriptions in rural areas also decreased from 515.89 million to 515.60 million during the same period. Monthly decline rates of urban and rural wireless subscriptions were 0.12 percent and 0.06 percent, respectively,” TRAI mentioned.