Jio outpaces Airtel in 4G/5G user additions during April
Reliance Jio continued to outpace rivals Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea in active wireless subscriber and high-paying 4G/5G users, telecom regulator data for April showed.
Reliance Jio added more active subscribers during the period, adding 3.06 users, while Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea lost 2.09 million and 0.63 million active subscribers respectively, according to the data released by the telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday.
Active, or visitor location register (VLR) data put out every month by Trai indicates the number of mobile users regularly using a mobile network.
As a result, Jio’s active user base jumped to 433.42 million users, while Airtel and Vodafone Idea’s active user base declined to 383.32 million and 192.64 million users respectively.
The latest wireless broadband user data from Trai also showed Jio and Airtel added 2.69 million and 2.07 million high-paying 4G and 5G users respectively. Vodafone Idea lost 1.26 3G/4G users. Cash-strapped Vi is yet to roll out 5G services.
Notably, trai data revealed an 8.02% decline in the nascent fixed-wireless access user base, which declined to 0.73 million by the end of April, from 0.79 million in March-end.
On a gross scale, Jio added 2.68 million subscribers while Bharti Airtel added 0.75 million subscribers. Meanwhile, Vodafone Idea and state-owned BSNL continued to suffer customer losses, losing 0.73 million and 1.2 million subscribers respectively in April.
The net additions for Jio and Airtel took their respective gross user
