Vodafone-Concept’s (VIL) subscribers base continued to say no for the 9 consecutive months this calendar 12 months, dropping 7.5 lakh cell prospects throughout September, bringing down its consumer tally to 22.75 crore.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) additionally recorded a decline of 23.26 lakh cell subscribers in the course of the month and closed with a subscriber base of 9.36 crore.
Reliance Jio added 34.7 lakh cell subscribers in the course of the month, sustaining its lead place within the Indian telecom market, the most recent month-to-month information shared by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) stated on Wednesday, including that Bharti Airtel’s wi-fi subscriber tally additionally rose by 13.2 lakh in September.
Jio gained 34.75 lakh wi-fi subscribers in September, and its consumer base climbed to 44.92 crore in the course of the month, whereas rival Airtel spruced up its cell subscriber tally to 37.77 crore in September.
Wi-fi customers
Based on the TRAI information, the entire wi-fi subscribers elevated to 1,150.15 million on the finish of September as in comparison with 1,148.43 million on the finish of August, thereby registering a month-to-month development charge of 0.15 per cent.
“Wi-fi subscription in city areas elevated from 629.39 million on the finish of August to 630.17 million on the finish of September and wi-fi subscription in rural areas additionally elevated from 519.04 million to 519.99 million throughout the identical interval. Month-to-month development charge of city and rural wi-fi subscription was 0.12 per cent and 0.18 per cent respectively,” it stated.
As on September 30, the non-public entry service suppliers held 91.69 per cent market share of the wi-fi subscribers whereas BSNL and MTNL, the 2 PSU entry service suppliers, had a market share of solely 8.31 per cent, the TRAI report stated.
Quantity portability
By way of cell quantity portability (MNP), a complete of 12.65 million requests have been obtained for MNP throughout September, and out of complete 12.65 million new requests, 7.21 million requests obtained from Zone-I (Northern and Western India), and 5.44 million requests obtained from Zone-II (Southern and Japanese India).
The cumulative MNP requests elevated from 877.43 million on the finish of August to 890.08 million on the finish of September, because the implementation of MNP in 2015.
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