Jio subscriber addition slips under 7 mn a month for first time since 2018

For the first time since 2018, Reliance Jio’s subscriber addition in September dropped below seven million a month, according to data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Jio also started reporting wireline numbers with the commercial launch of its fibre services that month.

It reported adding 698,3146 subscribers in September, the lowest since it added 6.1 million in November 2017, after which it grew without a halt. Bharti Airtel reported a dip of about 2.3 million subscribers (2,384,610) and Vodafone Idea by about 2.5 million (2,576,726).

Jio’s wireline telephone subscriber base was almost four per cent at month-end, with 857,461 additions. State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam had 47 per cent market share, followed by Airtel at 20 per cent.