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Reliance Jio’s subscriber base grew by 122% during Sep-Oct 2016 : TRAI

Reliance Jio added 19.63 million new subscribers during the month of October, which is significantly higher than the additions among the top three telecom operators (Airtel, Idea , Vodafone), according to TRAI’s latest telecom subscription data (pdf). Idea added 6.37 million new subscribers, Airtel added 2.32 million subscribers while Vodafone added 1.17 million subscribers. Reliance Jio posted a monthly growth rate of 122.86% in terms of wireless subscriber additions, while Airtel, Idea and Vodafone posted monthly growth rate of 0.90%, 3.54% and 0.59% respectively. On the other hand smaller operators like MTS lost 258,555 subscribers, RCOM lost 992,901 subscribers, and Tata Docomo lost 1.35 million users. Note that MTS is in the process of merging operations with RCOM. TRAI data also revealed that private telecom operators held 90.86% of the overall wireless telecom market share, while the top the three telcos (Airtel, Idea, Vodafone) held a majority share of 60.21% of the wireless telecom market. New entrant Reliance Jio held 3.30% of the market in the end of October. State owned telcos BSNL and MTNL held only 9.14% of the wireless market share during the same period. Tele-density of wireless subscribers Overall wireless subscriber base stood at 1.07 billion by the end of October, which increased from 1.04 billion as of September. Out of this, only 970.47 million subscribers were considered as “active subscribers” in October which represented about 89.99% of the overall wireless base. Wireless tele-density in Urban areas increased to 155.35 at the end of October from 151.10…

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