Jio added double the customers than all competitors together

As per the latest reportfrom TRAI , the new entrant Reliance Jio has been successful in maintaining the top position in acquiring highest number of wireless customers till end of January 2018. Jio has added over 8.3 million subscribers during the month, where as all the remaining competitors like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have added less than the half of what Jio has added. This clearly indicates that customers are preferring Jio service over others.

The report says that the telecom subscriber base in India has dropped by 15.66 million to 1,175.01 million in January. The number of total wireless subscribers declined by 15.5 million to 1,151.94 million. "The number of telephone subscribers in India declined from 1,190.67 million at the end of December 2017 to 1,175.01 million at the end of January 2018," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its monthly subscriber report on Friday.

With the recent addition of 8.3 million subscribers, Jio has taken its total customer base to 168.3 million. Telecom major Bharti Airtel had the highest total customer base of 291.6 million but it could add only 1.5 million new subscribers. Meanwhile, Idea added 1.1 million new customers, taking its base to 197.6 million, Vodafone added 1.28 million, taking its base to 213.8 million. State-owned telecom operator BSNL, on the other hand, added 0.39 million, taking its base to 108.3 million by the end of January.

It is also reported that RCom, which shut down its telecom services in December, lost 21 million subscribers in January. Additionally, Aircel has also lost over 3.4 million subscribers and Tata Teleservices lost 1.9 million of its users. Also, Telenor lost 1.6 million users and MTNL lost just over 10,000 of its users.

However, the Airtel still has the greater market share of 25.32% followed by Vodafone, Idea, Reliance Jio, BSNL having a market share of 18.56%, 17.16%, 14.62% and 9.4% respectively. With an improved market share of 14.62%, Jio stands in the 4th position. Previous month, Jio had a market share of 13.71%. So, there is an improvement of around 1% market share. Surprisingly, Airtel's market share has declined from 25.85% to 25.32% compared to last month, being the only company to have negative market growth. Other companies like Vodafone and Idea have also improved market share slightly.

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