Jio tops user addition, as incumbents stay focused on stronger active base

Even as Vodafone and Airtel added wireline subscribers, overall wireline base continued to shrink at a monthly decline rate of 0.4%

The wireless and wireline subscription numbers for October, released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), show that Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) as a merged entity lost 7.36 million subscribers in the month. This was higher than their combined subscriber losses in the previous two months leading up to the merger (6.69 mn users lost in September, 2.94 mn in August).

Even as incumbents Vodafone and Airtel added more wireline subscribers than BSNL, the total wireline base continued to shrink at a monthly decline rate of 0.4 per cent, TRAI said. Compared to September, mobile number portability requests in October