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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI, released the telecom data for the month of February 2021 yesterday evening. The month saw India's total telephony subscribers go up to 1.187 billion, a growth of 0.71%.
TRAI Shows A Rosy February for Jio and Vi
In what would be music to the ears at Reliance Jio, the telco has managed to break Bharti Airtel's 6 month streak of adding the most subscribers. In February, Jio added 4,266,819 subscribers, edging out Airtel, which added 3,737,645 subscribers in the same time.
Of course, all of this does not matter to Vodafone Idea. The telco added a net positive subscribers for the first time in an year and a quarter. With a total of 652,625 subscribers, the telco has seen green after a while. Vodafone Idea might want to avoid the debacle it had to endure in April as well.
However, things still look grim for PSU telcos, as BSNL and MTNL lost more than 300,000 subscribers collectively in the same time.
Growth-wise, however, Bharti Airtel registered a slightly better growth rate of 1.08% than Jio's 1.04%.
With all said and done, Reliance Jio still has the largest market share in telecom. In February, their market share stood at 35.54%. Bharti Airtel followed with 29.83% and Vodafone Idea completed the podium with 24.20% market share.
In terms of % Active Subscribers, Bharti Airtel, and even Vodafone Idea, are far ahead than Reliance Jio. Airtel has a massive 97.47% of their subscribers active, and Vi has 90.61% active users. Reliance Jio has the poorest score in this metric, having only 78.16% active subscribers out of the Big Three telcos.
In terms of total broadband subscribers, which is wireless+wireline, Reliance Jio now almost has a monopoly on the market. The telco has a 54.56% share of the market in terms of subscribers. Bharti Airtel has half their numbers, and Vodafone Idea has a quarter of their numbers. However, BSNL still is the largest wireline service provider, with over 6 million users.