Vodafone Thought (Vi), a struggling Indian telecom operator has managed so as to add some lively customers in September 2023. Whereas the numbers aren’t nice, they’re higher than being unfavourable. Vi misplaced tens of millions of lively subscribers for a number of months and that led to the telco’s lively subscriber base declining beneath 200 million. However in September 2023, Vi stunned the business by including wi-fi subscribers. The telco has added subscribers regardless of not providing 5G.

Let’s get right down to the numbers of every of the telecom operators in September 2023. Be aware that the information has been supplied by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

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Energetic Subscriber Addition/Subtraction of Vi, Airtel, Jio and BSNL

In Sep 2023, the main telecom operator so as to add lively wi-fi customers was Reliance Jio. Jio added 3.13 million lively wi-fi customers MoM (month over month). Bharti Airtel added merely 0.61 million lively wi-fi customers. The cash-strapped and non-5G telecom operator, Vi added 0.4 million lively wi-fi customers. This can be a constructive growth for Vi.

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BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted), a state-run telecom firm, misplaced 0.63 million lively wi-fi customers. The full lively subscriber base of all of the telcos on the finish of Sep 2023 was:

• Jio – 420.27 million
• Airtel – 376.15 million
• Vodafone Thought – 199.79 million
• BSNL – 49.99 million

BSNL’s lively subscriber base has dipped beneath 49.99 million. The subscriber addition would solely come if the state-run telco can handle to roll out 4G shortly in lots of components of India.

By way of general subscriber base, Jio is the main telecom operator with Airtel on the second rank. Here is the overall subscriber base of every of the telcos on the finish of Sep 2023:

• Jio – 449.21 million
• Airtel – 377.78 million
• Vodafone Thought – 227.53 million
• BSNL – 93.67 million

Through the month, over 12.65 million MNP (cellular quantity portability) requests had been made by customers throughout India.