Reliance Jio Leads in Wireless Subscriber Addition in August Month, BSNL Loses Wired Customers

When it comes to wireless subscribers, the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator, Reliance Jio has been making very rapid progress in terms of subscriber base. The telecom operator has grown its subscribers base beyond 350 million subscribers as reported by its monthly quarterly earnings sheet. In the quarter ending August 31, 2019, the Mukesh Ambani led telco reported the most number of wireless subscribers by absolute numbers. As for the largest growth by percentage terms, Bharti Airtel was the operator to make the most massive number of subscriber addition. As per the reports on the subscriber base, Reliance Jio added 3.05 million subscribers in the quarter ending August, in the same period, Bharti Airtel closely followed Reliance Jio by adding 2.76 million subscribers.

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Reliance Jio Adds Most Number of Subscribers

As for the total market share of the broadband service providers, both wireless and wired broadband services, the top five service providers made up for 98.96% of the market share in the quarter ending August 31, 2019. These five operators making up close to all the broadband subscribers included Reliance Jio 348.2 million, but as reported by Reliance Jio itself, at the end of the quarter ending September 2019, the telecom operator stood beyond the 355 million mark. On the second number spot was Bharti Airtel with 126.7 million subscribers, Vodafone Idea with 111.11 million subscribers, BSNL with 21.5 million subscribers and at the end of this list was Atria Convergence Technology (ACT Fibernet) with 1.47 million subscribers. Also, the data on the subscriber base highlighted that the total broadband base in the country grew by 1.87% in the July-August period. The subscriber addition through mobile phones was 11.5 million, whereas, there was a negative growth as the broadband subscriber base declined by 20,000. After the decline, the total wired broadband subscriber base stood at 18.32 million. In the month before, this subscriber base stood at 18.52 million.