Jio leads in user growth & market share, Airtel expands 4G, 5G base; Vi continues to struggle: Report
Jio added way more active users than Bharti Airtel in June 2024, but the Sunil Mittal-led telco added more higher-paying 4G and 5G users than its closest rival in that month. Vodafone Idea (Vi) continued to lose active users but gained some 3G and 4G users, according to latest telco subscriber data released by the regulator Tuesday.
Jio added nearly 4 million active users to Airtel’s modest 0.67 million additions in June, while Vi lost as many as 2.71 million active users, latest customer data put out by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) showed. Vi’s heavy losses on this score underlined its continuing inability to fight bigger rivals, Jio and Airtel.
As per Trai data, Jio, Airtel and Vi’s active user bases were at 440.94 million, 384.83 million and 188.26 million respectively in end-June.
Active, or visitor location register (VLR), data put out every month by Trai indicates the number of mobile users regularly using a mobile network.
Trai’s wireless broadband users data, in turn, showed Airtel and Jio added 3.17 million and 1.91 million 4G/5G users respectively in June, while Vi added only 0.56 million 3G/4G users. Vi is yet to roll out 5G networks. Jio and Airtel have launched 5G services nationally and had 130 million and 90 million pure 5G users respectively in the quarter ended June 2024.
On the gross customer additions front, though, Jio’s gains were higher than Airtel’s. Data collated by Trai showed Jio added 1.91 million mobile users while Airtel reported 1.25 million additions,
