Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel continue to lose users; Jio adds 8.26 million

The two older telecom majors, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, continued to lose subscribers — 4.17 million combined — during June, while rival Reliance Jio added 8.26 million users at a steady pace, according to data issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).

Vodafone Idea still led in total subscriber tally at 383.4 million, even as its broadband market share and active subscriber base stayed stagnant, followed by Jio with 331.2 million and Airtel with 320.3 million.

As on end-June, the top five wired broadband service providers were Bharat Sanchar Nigam (9.05 million), Airtel (2.4 million), Atria Convergence Technologies (1.45 million), Hathway Cable & Datacom (0.84 million) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (0.74 million). This picture is expected to change with the official launch of Jio’s fibre-to-home service in September.