By Our Correspondent
New Delhi: The state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)has added almost 8.5 lakh subscribers. The private telecoms Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea cumulatively lost over ten-million wireless subscribers in September 2024 while BSNL has added almost 8.5 lakh mobile users, according to the monthly data released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) here.
Reliance Jio lost 79.69 lakh mobile subscribers in September compared to the previous month, Bharti Airtel (14.34 lakh users) and Vodafone Idea (15.53 lakh users).
The wireless subscriber base of Reliance Jio stood at 46.37 crore in September, while that of Bharti Airtel was 38.34 crore.
The wireless user base of Vodafone Idea was 21.24 crore as of September 2024. With BSNL’s gain of 8.49 new subscribers, it pushed its subscriber tally to 9.18 crore, the data revealed.
It is pertinent to mention that the three private telecom companies had hiked mobile tariffs by 10-27 per cent in July.
BSNL ,however, refrained from following in the foot-steps of its larger rivals and its Chairman and Managing Director, Robert Ravi ruled out an increase in tariffs in the near future. “We can clearly say we are not going to increase our tariffs in the nearer future,” Mr Ravi had told the reporters earlier.
