Reliance Jio beats Airtel & Vodafone, adds 84.45 lakh net subscribers

TRAI's report released on Friday reveals Reliance Jio was sole telco to d 84.45 lakh net subscribers in August while competitors like Airtel and Vodafone were on losing side. Reliance Jio ded 84.45 lakh net subscribers in August. Or telcos including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea came where close to Jio. Meanwhile, wireless subscriber base with 117.1 crore users accounted for more than 98 per cent total telephone users. 

" number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,189.28 million at end of July 2019 to 1,191.81 million at end of August 2019," Trai said in telecom subscription report for month of August 2019. "Total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA and LTE) increased from 1,168.31 million at end of July 2019 to 1,171 million at end of August 2019," report said.

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Jio ded 84.45 lakh customers

On or hand, Vodafone Idea ded 49.56 lakh customers, followed by Bharti Airtel with 5.61 lakh mobile subscribers, BSNL with 2.36 lakh, MTNL with 6,701 and Reliance Communications with only 63 users. 

As per TRAI report, state-owned telecom operation BSNL was only operator gaining customers along with Jio since October 2018. However, BSNL lost steam in August 2019 with a dip in number of subscribers. During reported month 48.6 lakh customers ported out ir number.

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What's more, wireline subscriber base declined by 1.5 lakh to 2.08 crore with BSNL alone losing 1.41 lakh fixed-line customers. Private telecom operators Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel posted growth in ir fixed-line connection base. India's broband subscriber base grew by 1.87 per cent to 61.55 crore connections with wireless connections accounting for around 97 per cent of total base.

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"Top five service providers constituted 98.96 per cent market share of total broband subscribers at end of August 2019. se service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (34.82 crore), Bharti Airtel (12.67 crores), Vodafone Idea (11.11 crore), BSNL (2.15 crore) and Atria Convergence (14.7 lakh)," report said.

(With PTI inputs)