Within three
years of starting its commercial operations, Reliance Jio has become the country’s largest telecom operator with a subscriber base of 331.3 million, surpassing
Vodafone Idea which on Friday reported
a decline in its user base to 320 million
by June 2019.
According to the financial results reported by Reliance Industries last week,
its subsidiary Reliance Jio had a user base
of 331.3 million by June 2019.
Mukesh Ambani-led firm Jio had pipped
Bharti Airtel in May to become the second largest mobile operator with 322.9 million users and 27.80 per cent market
share, according to TRAI data. Airtel had
320.38 million users or 27.6 per cent market share.
Vodafone Idea on Friday reported a
decline in its customer base to 320 million in the first quarter of 2019-20 from
334.1 million in the March quarter.
“Our subscriber base declined to 320.0
million from 334.1 million in fourth quarter of financial year 2019 primarily due
to customer churn following the introduction of ‘service validity vouchers’ in
the prior quarters,” Vodafone Idea said
in a statement.
Vodafone Idea had emerged as the largest telecom operator with over 400 million subscribers after Vodafone India and
Idea Cellular completed the merger of
telecom services business.
However, the merged entity continued to lose customers every month and
later it wrote off million of customers
who did not subscribe to its minimum
recharge plan. – PTI