Subscriber addition: Jio, Airtel gain, Voda-Idea loses

NEW DELHI: India’s top two telecom operators- Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel- continue to add customers while debt-laden and cash-starved Vodafone India (Vi) lost its subscriber base once again. In the month of August, Reliance Jio gained 0.65 million wireless customers, taking its gross mobile user base to 443.86 million while Airtel’s subscriber base rose by 0.13 million to 354.19 million. Vi, on the contrary, lost 0.83 million customers, that took its total mobile user base to 271.06 million.