The number of telecom subscribers decreased to 1166 million in February, the number of subscribers of these companies declined.

Telecom subscribers' data: Vodafone Idea (VI) lost its mobile subscribers as well. It lost 15.32 lakh mobile subscribers, while BSNL and MTNL lost 1.11 lakh and 5,097 connections respectively. Bharti Airtel added 15.91 lakh new customers in February. As per TRAI report,

Telecom subscribers' Data: The number of telecom subscribers in the country has come down to 116.60 crore in February this year. During this, the number of mobile customers of companies like Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea declined. This information has been received from the data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday. According to the data, Bharti Airtel was the only company in the mobile segment whose number of connections increased. At the same time, the fixed line subscriber base continued to grow.

These companies lost customers

The market share of private telecom operators has increased in this segment while the public sector companies - BSNL and MTNL - have lost their customers. The TRAI report said, "The number of telephone subscribers in India declined from 116.94 million at the end of January, 2022 to 116.60 million at the end of February, 2022.

This is a drop of 0.29 per cent. February was the third consecutive month when Reliance Jio lost its mobile subscribers. The number of mobile customers of the company decreased by 36.6 lakhs to 40.27 crores.

15.91 lakh customers connected with Bharti Airtel

Vodafone Idea (VI) mobile subscribers also declined. It lost 15.32 lakh mobile subscribers, while BSNL and MTNL lost 1.11 lakh and 5,097 connections respectively. Bharti Airtel added 15.91 lakh new customers in February. According to the TRAI report, "The number of wireline subscribers increased from 2.42 crore at the end of Jan'22 to 24.5 million at the end of Feb'22. The wireline subscriber base grew by a net 3.1 lakhs with a monthly growth rate of 1.27 per cent.

Reliance Jio added 2.44 lakh new customers in the wireline segment. After this, Bharti Airtel added 91,243 subscribers, then Vodafone Idea 24,948, Quadrant 18,622 and lastly Tata Teleservices added 3,772 subscribers. BSNL and MTNL jointly hold 49.5 per cent stake in this segment. These companies lost 49,074 and 21,900 fixed line customers respectively. The number of broadband subscribers in the country declined marginally to 78.33 million in February from 78.34 million in January.