Jio gains as incumbents remove inactive subscribers

Reliance Jio has been consistently adding active subscribers while incumbent operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone-Idea have lost customers every month since the beginning of the year.

The result has been an increase in RJio’s subscriber market share and a dip in subscriber market shares of India’s older telcos, which had purged low value customers in hordes beginning October 2018.

There still remains a discrepancy between subscriber numbers reported by the carriers on their own sites and those reported by the telecom regulator. Thus, ET takes a look at the active subscriber additions or losses, provided by Trai.