Bharti Airtel tops Nov user additions, increases base to 335 mn: Trai data

Bharti Airtel topped mobile subscriber addition again in November, outpacing Reliance Jio, according to data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).

During the month, Airtel added 4.3 million users, increasing its base to over 334.6 million. Jio added 1.9 million mobile users, taking its customer count to 408.2 million.

Jio’s net customer additions have slowed in recent months and Airtel seems to have benefitted more from the decline in Vodafone Idea’s market share. Jio has also attributed the slower net customer growth to the farmers’ protests in Punjab. Jio, however, has the highest market share among service providers, with over 35 per cent share of wireless subscribers.