Gujarat loses 13.6 lakh mobile subscribers

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat reported a drastic decline of 13.6 lakh mobile subscribers in September, according to the latest telecom subscriptions report by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Accordingly, Gujarat’s total mobile subscribers fell from around 7 crore in August to 6.8 crore in September, suggests the report.

All major telecom players reported a decline in subscriber numbers in September. Telecom industry sources have attributed the decline to the weakened spending capacity of people around the second wave of Covid-19, due to which mobile connections were cancelled or not recharged. The effect of consistently not paying bills or recharging connections was seen two-three months later in September, when connections went inactive.