Telecom User Base

Bharti Airtel, the second-largest player in the market, saw its subscriber count increase by 1.32 million users

India leads as the highest data consumption market globally, with a per-capita consumption of 25 gigabytes per month

Jio has consistently posted robust growth in user numbers, having added 2.2 million users in June

16-mnth hold-up: User base down by a tenth, Ebitda margins squeezed, losses pile up

Telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 117.29 crore in June with Reliance Jio adding maximum number of new customers, according to data released by sector regulator Trai on Wednesday. There were 117.07 crore subscribers in May 2022. "The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,170.73 million at the end of May 2022 to 1,172.96 million at the end of June 2022, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.19 per cent," Trai said in the report. The wireless subscriber base grew to 114.73 crore in June from 114.55 crore in May. Reliance Jio's wireless subscriber base grew to 41.3 crore with net addition of 42.23 lakh customers. It was followed by Bharti Airtel whose subscriber base increased to 36.29 crore with net addition of 7.93 lakh customers. Vodafone Idea continued to lose subscribers. Its subscriber base fell by 18 lakh to 25.66 crore. State-run BSNL and MTNL also lost 13.27 lakh and 3,038 wireless customers respectively. The wireline (fixed

State governments had imposed lockdowns to curb the spread of the pathogen in April - a move that derailed economic activity.

Jio was the only operator to add 7.2 million active subscribers in August 2019

Mobile segment accounted for the lion's share with a net addition of over 60 lakh customers