Consequently, it also lost wireless market share in September 2022, ending the month with 21.75% share, as compared to 22.03% in August. It ceded most of its share to competitors Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio.
Airtel’s share grew from 31.66% to 31.80%, while Jio’s grew from 36.48% to 36.66%, the latest subscriber data collated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India showed.
Subscriber growth slowed down compared to previous months for both Airtel and Jio with additions of 0.41 million and 0.72 million subscribers respectively. Visitor Location Register, a key metric reflecting the number of active subscribers on a mobile network, indicated that 98.56% of the users were active for Airtel, 91.3% for Jio and 85.17% for Vi.
The TRAI data also showed that India’s mobile user base dipped by 3.66% to 1.145 billion at the end of September from end-August.
The overall wireless tele-density also dipped from 83.27% in August to 82.94% in September.
In September, 11.97 million subscribers submitted requests for Mobile Number Portability (MNP), increasing the cumulative requests to 748.11 million by the end of the month.
Wireline subscribers increased to 26.47 million in September compared to 25.97 million at the end of August, a net increase of 0.5 million.
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