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Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
Bharti Airtel must be very happy right now. The telco’s performance has improved quite well in June 2021 as compared to May 2021. Make no mistake; no one would have written off the second-largest telecom operator from their books just because it had one bad month. But, the sigh of relief for the telco must have come because of the percentage of active users it has. While it has always been known that Bharti Airtel has more active users than Reliance Jio in terms of percentage, in June 2021, the telco even had more active users than Jio in terms of total numbers.
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As per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report, Bharti Airtel had 344 million active users in the month of June 2021. In comparison to this, Reliance Jio had 340 million active users. It is worth noting that both the telcos had added an equal number (2.4 million) of new active subscribers in June 2021.
Bharti Airtel had lost most than 4.5 million users in May 2021. This might have primarily been because of the nationwide lockdowns because of the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the very same month, Reliance Jio had added 3.5 million users.
This had a big impact on the way people saw Bharti Airtel in the short term. I believe Reliance Jio had added new customers on the back of low tariffs and the new JioPhone offer announced in March 2021. But the effect of the JioPhone 2021 offer will subside as months go by.
