Bharti Airtel Beats Jio As It Adds 43.7 Lakh Subscribers In Nov; Voda-Idea Continues To Lose

The Sunil Bharti Mittal-led company added 4.37 million new users, the highest among the players in November, pushing up its user base to 33.46 crore. 

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For the fourth consecutive month, Bharti Airtel added the highest number of subscribers in November as compared to market leader Reliance Jio. 

According to the latest TRAI data, the Sunil Bharti Mittal-led company added 4.37 million new users, the highest among the players in November, pushing up its user base to 33.46 crore. 

Other telecom operators - Vodafone Idea (Vi) and MTNL - meanwhile continued to see decline in their user bases. As per monthly telecom subscription data released by sector regulator TRAI, rival Jio added 19.36 lakh subscribers. India's largest telecom operator's subscriber base stood at 40.82 crore as on November 2020. Vodafone Idea on the other hand lost 28.9 lakh subscribers and its user base shrunk to 28.99 crore in November.

"The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,171.80 million at the end of October-20 to 1,175.27 million at the end of November-20, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.30 per cent," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said.

"The monthly growth rates of urban and rural telephone subscription were 0.20 per cent and 0.41 per cent respectively during the month of November-20," TRAI added.

As per the TRAI data, total wireless subscribers in India increased from 1,151.81 million in October to 1,155.20 million at the end of November in 2020, there by registering a monthly growth of 0.29 per cent. Of the total wireless subscribers (1,155.20 million), 968.42 million were active, pegging the proportion of such subscribers at almost 83.83 per cent.