Reliance Jio gains 2.5 million subscribers in July 2020 as Airtel, Vodafone Idea slip

NEW DELHI: Reliance Jio gained 2.5 million active subscribers in July, reversing the decline seen in the previous month, while rivals Airtel and Vodafone Idea lost 0.4 million and 3.8 million active users respectively, latest reports based on TRAI data said.

Although industry’s overall wireless subscribers rose nearly 3.5 million in July — the first month of such gains since February — the total ‘active subscribers’ count in July actually fell 2.1 million, as per TRAI data. “Industry’s active subscriber base…in July was down 2.1 million at 956 million after decline of 2.8 million month-on-month in June,” Axis Capital said in its recent report, crunching TRAI’s monthly data.