Welcome Guest Login | Register | Site Map | | Make TelecomTiger my homepage     
Telecom News
Enterprise |  Policy & Regulation |  Mobiles & Tabs |  Corporate |  VAS |  People Movement  |  Technology  |  LTE
Corporate
Jio outpaces Bharti Airtel to become No. 2 telco by users at May end: Trai
TT Correspondent |  |  19 Jul 2019

Reliance Jio has upstaged Bharti Airtel to become the second largest telco in terms of subscribers.

According to May data released by the telecom regulator, Mukesh Ambani-owned Jio had nearly 323 million customers compared with Sunil Mittal-led Airtel’s 320.38 million. Kumar Mangalam Birla-led Vodafone Idea, remains the market leader with 387.55 million.

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have been losing subscribers at a fast rate, owing mainly to their introduction of the minimum recharge plans. The two telcos said this was done to weed out the non-performing customers, which boosted their average revenue per user. Airtel lost 1.51 million users in May, which Voda Idea lost 5.7 million.

On the other hand, Jio added some 8.2 million customers, according to Trai’s May data, mainly attracting subscribers at the lower end of the revenue base through its 4G feature phone, Jio Phone. This however has been a drag on the telco's ARPU.

    
 mail this article    print this article    Show and Post comment
19 Jul 2019(IST)  
Whitepaper
Maintain Business Continuity with Cisco ASR 9000 nV Technology
It is a virtual chassis solution where a pair of ASR 9000 routers acts as a single device by maintaining a single contr...read more
Simplify Your Network with Cisco ASR 9000 nV Technology
With the new Cisco Network Virtualization (nV) technology in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, se...read more
Cisco Small Cell Solution: Reduce Costs, Improve Coverage
It is designed to address the challenge of mobile service coverage and to expand network capacity...read more