After falling behind its competitors in new subscriber addition for a couple of months, the new entrant in Indian telecom space Reliance Jio is back on track. The telco has beaten up other incumbent telcos and topped the chart by adding more than 5.9 million new subscribers to its 4G only network. Contradicting to this, the other Reliance telco, Reliance Communications (RCom) saw a massive drop of more than 5.09 million subscribers from its network. This can be attributed to the sudden closure of RCom network in many parts of the country.
According to the latest Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), telecom subscription data as on September 2017, Reliance Jio’s subscriber base now stands at 138.6 million and they are growing in an exponential way.
India’s largest telecom operator Airtel was able to add around 1 million new subscribers to its network. But, other top telcos Vodafone India and Idea Cellular lost subscribers during this month. However, Govt telco BSNL showed a positive growth and added around 5.5 lakh new subscribers to its network.