Telecom major Bharti Airtel added over 2.74 lakh active users in the month of September, while Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea lost 1.9 crore and 10.8 lakh wireless subscribers, respectively, in September, TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) data released on Monday said.
Vodafone Idea too has lost 10.7 lakh, wireless subscribers, in the same month, shedding customers for the 11th straight month.
Airtel gained a 0.08% market share of wireless subscribers, while Jio’s user base declined 4.29% in September.
Total wireless subscribers decreased from 1.18 billion in August to 1.16 billion at the end of September, thereby registering a monthly decline rate of 1.74%.
Bharti Airtel today announced that it will increase the prices of its mobile plans by at least 20% later this week, signaling that the cut-throat price war in the sector may be phasing out.
Trai had also stated earlier this month that Reliance Jio gave the highest download speed which was 20.9 Mbps according to TRAI’s 4G chart, followed by Vodafone Idea which offered an average downloading speed of 14.4 Mbps and Airtel which delivered 11.9 Mbps speed.
Vodafone Idea topped in the upload segment with 7.2 Mbps data speed. Vodafone Idea was followed by Reliance Jio with an upload speed of 6.2 Mbps and Bharti Airtel 4.5 Mbps.
