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#Airtel outpaces #Jio & #VodafoneIdea in subscriber additions this year



By @jainrounak businessinsider.in/business/telec…

The Indian #telecom landscape is heating up once again with the #5GSpectrum auctions just a week away. But, there’s a quiet battle for subscribers going on in the background and #Airtel seems to be taking the lead for the year.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (@TRAI) subscriber data, #Airtel has added a little over 6.4 million subscribers in 2022 (until May), while its rivals #RelianceJio and #VodafoneIdea have both lost nearly 7 million each.

In some good news for the overall industry, the total active subscriber base increased by 4 million in May – while #Airtel and #Jio contributed over 6.6 million, #VodafoneIdea lost 2.3 million active subscribers.

#VodafoneIdea has seen its active subscriber market share consistently decline every month since the beginning of 2020 – between January 2020 and May 2022, Vodafone Idea’s active subscriber market share has fallen from 30.1% to 21.6%.

Active subscribers are very important as they are actively paying money to #Telecom companies, instead of having a dormant number only to receive calls. In April, the overall active subscriber base fell by 7.5 million.

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#Jio has often been used as a secondary SIM by many users, and this is evident from the fact that its active subscriber market share shot up from 84% in November 2021 to 93.8% in May 2022, when it lost nearly 20 million subscribers.