At present, four telecom companies are mainly operating in India – Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL. But Jio and Airtel dominate the entire telecom sector.
Jio and Airtel currently have the maximum number of customers. Not only this, the customers of both the companies are continuously increasing while the user base of the other two companies is declining.
Telecom subscribers figures for the month of August have been released by TRAI. Once again Reliance Jio has proved its dominance and won. According to TRAI report, the country’s largest telecom service provider company Reliance Jio has added 32.4 lakh new customers in August. With this, the number of its wireless connections has crossed 44.57 crore. Telecom regulator TRAI has given this information.
According to the monthly data of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in the month of August, Bharti Airtel gained 12.17 lakh wireless customers and the number of its mobile customers increased to 37.64 crore.
On the other hand, Vodafone Idea, which is facing cash crunch, lost 49,782 connections in this month. With this, the number of wireless customers of Vodafone Idea decreased to 22.82 crores.
According to the data, Reliance Jio strengthened its position as the country’s largest mobile operator by adding 32.45 lakh new customers in August. However, compared to 39 lakh new customers in July, Jio’s growth in August remained sluggish. TRAI said that in August, 1.26 crore customers submitted their requests for Mobile Number Portability (MNP).
The total number of broadband subscribers increased by 0.96 percent to 87.6 crore in August. The top five broadband service providers had 98.35 percent market share in this month. These include Reliance Jio Infocom (45.5 crore), Bharti Airtel (25.3 crore), Vodafone-Idea (12.5 crore) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (2.5 crore).