Reliance Jio adds nearly 3.5 mn rural mobile users in July, Airtel, Vodafone Idea lose: Trai

Kolkata: Reliance Jio consolidated its leadership in rural India, adding 3.48 million users in those markets in July, while Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Bharti Airtel lost 0.99 million and 0.41 million customers respectively in these geographies, according to latest subscriber data issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday.

Overall too, Jio gained 6.51 million wireless customers in July, taking its gross user base to 443.21 million while Airtel’s rose 1.94 million to 354.05 million. Vi, by contrast, once more lost 1.43 million customers, shrinking its total mobile user base to 271.9 million, indicating its continuing inability to compete effectively with stronger rivals, Jio and Airtel.