Jio leads subscriber additions in March, Airtel records maximum number of active users

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the subscriber data for the month of March 2021. Jio added more subscribers in March than Airtel and Vodafone Idea, though trailing behind, has individually recorded positive subscriber additions.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the subscriber data for the month of March 2021. Jio added more subscribers in March than Airtel and Vodafone Idea, though trailing behind, has individually recorded a positive subscriber addition for the second time. Jio had a total of 422.92 million wireless subscribers followed by Airtel on the second spot with 352.40 million users with Vi having 283.71 users at the end of March 2021. The net additions for Jio’s wireless subscribers was 7.92 million users in March while Airtel added 4.06 million, followed by Vodafone Idea’s 1.09 million subscribers. “The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,187.90 million at the end of February-21 to 1,201.20 million at the end of March-21, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 1.12%,” TRAI said. Coming to the fixed wireline segment, Jio added 185,345 new connections whereas Airtel gained 74,158 connections for the month of March. The total number of wireline subscribers for Jio and Airtel is 4.8 million and 3.3 million subscribers respectively. Despite adding the maximum number of wireless and wireline subscribers, Jio had the largest chunk of inactive subscribers.