Reliance Jio, Airtel drive telecom subscriber base to 1,172.57 mn in May

New customer addition by telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel led to a marginal growth in the country’s telecom subscriber base to 1,172.57 million in May, according to a report released by regulator Trai on Tuesday.

Subscriber loss of Vodafone Idea, BSNL and MTNL mitigated the growth of the telecom user base in May.

“The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,172.52 million at the end of April-23 to 1,172.57 million at the end of May-23, thereby, showing a monthly growth rate of 0.004 per cent,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in its monthly subscriber report.