Jio provides 3 million subscribers in March, Vodafone Thought loses 1.2 million

India’s largest telecom operator Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh cell subscribers in March, accelerating its momentum of February, whereas Vodafone Thought misplaced 12.12 lakh wi-fi customers throughout the month, in line with information launched by telecom regulator TRAI. Sunil Mittal-led telecom firm Bharti Airtel onboarded 10.37 lakh cell subscribers in March, elevating its subscriber base to 37.09 crores in March in opposition to 36.98 crores in February.

Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh subscribers in March, as its subscriber depend exceeded 43 crore, in comparison with 42.71 crore in February. It’s pertinent to say that in February too, Reliance Jio had added the utmost variety of cell subscribers (at about 10 lakh) amongst telcos, whereas Airtel had gained 9.82 lakh cell customers throughout February.

A have a look at March information launched by TRAI confirmed that Vodafone Thought — which trails Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel within the cell market subscriber tally — misplaced 12.12 lakh cell customers in March. Vodafone Thought’s cell subscriber base shrunk to 23.67 crore in March, from 23.79 crore within the earlier month.

Total, the broadband subscribers’ tally rose by 0.86 per cent month-on-month.

“… the whole broadband subscribers elevated from 839.33 million on the finish of February-23 to 846.57 million on the finish of March-23 with a month-to-month development price of 0.86 per cent,” a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) launch mentioned.

High 5 service suppliers constituted 98.37 per cent market share of the whole broadband subscribers on the finish of March 2023, together with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (43.85 crore), Bharti Airtel (24.19 crore), Vodafone Thought (12.48 crore).

Total, the variety of whole phone subscribers in India elevated to 1,172.84 million (117.2 crore) on the finish of March 2023, exhibiting a month-to-month development price of 0.21 per cent.

“City phone subscription elevated from 652.16 million on the finish of February-23 to 653.71 million on the finish of March-23 and the agricultural subscription additionally elevated from 517.77 million to 518.63 million throughout the identical interval.

“The month-to-month development charges of city and rural phone subscription have been 0.24 per cent and 0.17 per cent respectively throughout the month of March-23,” TRAI mentioned.

Total teledensity in India elevated to 84.51 per cent on the finish of March 2023.

“The City Tele-density elevated from 133.70 per cent on the finish of February-23 to 133.81 per cent on the finish of March-23 and rural tele-density additionally elevated from 57.63 per cent to 57.71 per cent throughout the identical interval,” it mentioned.

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