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TRAI data for the month of May was released, and telephone subscribers experienced a monthly growth rate of 0.51%. The number was 1,147.71 million at the end of April, and by the end of May the number has increased to 1,153.51 million. The most interesting bit of May data is that Airtel has seen a mbadive increase in its wireless subscriber base. The company recorded a net increase of 35.9 million subscribers in May, against Reliance Jio which added 9.3 million subscribers
This sudden increase in the number of subscribers is due to the completion of the merger with Telenor. The company announced this merger last year, and now that all government approvals are in place, all Telenor subscribers have been added to the Airtel chat. Telenor notes on its website that all subscribers can now recharge and view all the plans on the Airtel website or the My Airtel application. With this merger, Airtel now has the largest wireless market share of 30.46%. As a reminder, Airtel had a market share of 27.44% in April.
Vodafone comes in second with 19.64% market share and over 4.2 million subscriber additions in May. Idea still retains an 18.94% market share even after losing approximately 2.5 million subscribers. Reliance Jio remains in third position with a market share of 18.17%, slightly lower than Idea's market share, but it has added the largest number of subscribers to 9.3 million. Airtel takes the lead of Jio in monthly subscriber additions, thanks to the merger.
As a result of the merger, Airtel has nearly 350 million subscribers and currently has 344,553 subscribers. million subscribers by the end of May. Vodafone has 222,457 million subscribers, Idea account 214,228 million subscribers, Reliance Jio 205,542 million subscribers and BSNL 112,871 million subscribers
. Another interesting element revealed in the May report is that BSNL has managed to add 4.8 million wireless subscribers. huge jump from the April data, and the credit for it goes to its mbadive overhaul of most of its prepaid and postpaid plans to combat the competition. BSNL manages to register more subscribers than Vodafone as well.
Coming to broadband, the number of subscribers rose from 419.79 million in late April to 432 million in late May 2018 with a monthly growth rate of 2.91%. Reliance Jio enjoys the largest number of broadband subscribers with 205.54 million euros with a market share of 47.58%. Bharti Airtel ranks second with 91.59 million subscribers and 21.20% market share. Vodafone, Idea and BSNL follow with 61.42 million, 42.07 million and 20.75 million subscribers and 14.22%, 9.74% and 4.80% market share respectively. BSNL is the leader in the wired broadband segment, while all Reliance Jio broadband subscribers are the wireless broadband segment.
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