Airtel adds more mobile users than Jio for 5th straight month, Vodafone Idea loses more users

Bharti Airtel added more mobile phone users than market leader Reliance Jio Infocomm for the fifth straight month in December 2020, signalling that it’s still gaining bulk of the customers leaving Vodafone Idea (Vi), which continued to cede ground to its stronger adversaries.

Sunil Mittal-led Airtel gained 4.05 million wireless subscribers against Jio’s 0.47 million, while struggling Vi once again lost nearly 5.7 million users in December, according to latest subscriber data collated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) released Thursday.

Trai’s mobile user data showed Airtel’s December user base swelled to 338.70 million while Jio’s crept up to 408.77 million. Loss-making Vi’s user base, though, fell further to 284.25 million.