Reliance Jio New Delhi: Reliance Jio added 10 million active users in February but lost 3.66 million gross subscribers, indicating that the telecom major has not been affected by the SIM consolidation after the tariff hike last December and has continued its continuing clean-up of low-paying users for the last few months, ET reported.
Jio added the highest number of active mobile users among India’s top telcos in February for continuous eighth months, pushing its active user base to 379 million, according to data issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).
Bharti Airtel added 1.2 million active users, taking its active user base to 351 million.
Vodafone Idea (Vi) lost early 3 million such users -- the most in metro and category A-circles --taking its active user base to 226 million.
Jio had a 37.3 percent market share of the active user market in February, Airtel had 34.6 percent while loss-making Vi's market share stood at 22.2 percent.
Jio and Airtel's continued to add home broadband users.
Jio added 0.21 million customers to its JioFibre service in February, taking its fixed broadband user base to 5 million.
Airtel added 0.10 million such users, boosting its wired broadband subscriber base to 4.4 million.
According to the report, customers who left the state-run BSNL either joined Jio or Airtel.
BSNL lost 0.09 million users and remained at the third spot with 3.8 million subscribers.
“Jio had an 18.9% share of the home broadband subscriber base at end-February, compared with 16.6% for Airtel and 14.3% for BSNL,” ICICI Securities said, analysing Trai data, the ET report quoted.
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