Vodafone Idea loses 36 million subscribers in November: Trai

MUMBAI : Wireless telecom subscriber base reduced by 28.8 million in November, according to data provided by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). The loss was led by Vodafone Idea which lost 36.41 million subscribers during the month.

This takes Vodafone Idea’s cumulative subscriber exodus to 105.4 million since September 2018 when the two telco operators merged. Note that during the month of October, Jio introduced charges for calls outside the network. Reliance Jio mobile phone customers needed to buy top-up vouchers to make outgoing voice calls to any non-Jio mobile number like that of Airtel and Vodafone Idea. Company (Vodafone Idea) sources have confirmed that the sudden dip was because company has reduced time period of recording active subscriber from 120 days to 90 days and the company keeps deleting inactive subscribers so the reduction is the result of the same. Had it remained 120 days, the reduced number would have come at the end of December, said the source.