Reliance Jio Lost Most Wireless Subscribers in December 2021 as Airtel 4u3n1m BSNL Gained: TRAI

Reliance Jio lost over 12.9 million subscribers in the last month of 2021. 5l3p1m

By Sourabh Kulesh | Updated: 17 February 2022 15:35 IST

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Jio captured 36 percent of the total wireless subscriber market

Highlights

Jio ed a monthly negative growth of 3.01 percent
Airtel ed 0.13 percent growth
Vodafone Idea ed 0.60 percent negative growth

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Reliance Jio ed a loss of over 12.9 million wireless subscribers even as Bharti Airtel and BSNL gained new ones in December 2021, according to a telecom subscripton report by TRAI. However, the market share of the company still remains the highest at 36 percent, followed by Airtel at 30.81 percent, which gained over 450,000 subscribers, and Vi at 23 percent after losing about 1.6 million s. Bharti Airtel had the biggest proportion of active wireless subscribers (aka VLR subscribers) in the month of December, and PSUs like BSNL and MTNL ed the lowest VLR subscribers percentage, respectively.

TRAI's telecom subscription report for December 2021 showed that 1,000.63 million wireless subscribers were active on the date of peak VLR in the month. The number of wireless subscribers in India decreased from 1,167.50 million at the end of November 2021 to 1,154.62 million at the end of December 2021, ing a monthly decline rate of 1.10 percent. The wireless subscriptions in urban areas decreased from 638.46 million to 633.34 million and decreased from 529.04 million to 521.28 million in rural areas in a month. Monthly decline rates of urban and rural wireless subscription were 0.80 percent percent and 1.47 percent, respectively.

In of Access Service Provider-wise segregation, the private access service providers held 89.81 percent of market share, and the two PSUs (BSNL and MTNL) had a market share of only 10.19 percent, as on December 31, 2021. Jio captured 36 percent of the total wireless subscriber market, and has the second best proportion of its active wireless subscribers at 87.64 percent.

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As per a prepaid tariff hikes in November might have pushed low-income s to go to BSNL.

BSNL had 9.90 percent market share and MTNL 0.28 percent market share in the month of December, as per TRAI.

When it comes to growth percentage, Jio ed a monthly negative growth of 3.01 percent, Airtel ed 0.13 percent growth and Vodafone Idea ed 0.60 percent negative growth in wireless subscribers in the month of December 2021.

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