Vodafone Idea Ltd lagged further behind its main rivals in terms of subscriber base, losing 2.7 million net mobile subscribers in October, data from the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India showed.
In contrast, rivals Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd and Bharti Airtel Ltd saw their subscriber base increase by 2.2 million and 3.7 million respectively, helping them further consolidate their position as the largest and second largest operators. largest in the country.
Reliance Jio had 406 million subscribers at the end of October, while Bharti Airtel had 330 million. Vodafone Idea, which was once India’s largest operator, lagged further behind its rivals with 293 million.
Reliance Jio, led by Mukesh Ambani, has a 35% market share of wireless subscribers, followed by Bharti Airtel with 29% and Vodafone Idea with 25%.
Even in addition to wireless broadband subscribers, Vodafone Idea lagged behind its rivals, adding only about two-thirds of a million wireless broadband users. On the other hand, Bharati Airtel expanded its wireless broadband user base by almost 7 million to 170 million and Reliance Jio increased by almost 4 million to 408 million.
India’s active wireless subscriber base also increased by 2.5 million to almost 961 million. About 97% of Bharti Airtel’s total subscriber base was active during the month, the highest in the country, while for Reliance Jio it was 79%. Almost 89% of the Vodafone Idea user base was active.
In wireline services, Reliance Jio added the most users with almost 246,000, bringing its total to 2.32 million, while Bharti Airtel’s subscriber base increased by around 48,000 to 4.46 million. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, a leader in fixed telephony, lost more than 176,000 users with 7.56 million.
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