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Reliance Jio is reckoned to have crossed the 100-million mark of pure 5G users at March-end while closest rival Bharti Airtel has ended the fiscal fourth quarter with nearly 75 million 5G subscribers, on the back of rapid pan-India rollouts, people aware of the matter said.. Networks testing and analytics firm Ookla said India's top two mobile carriers, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, were the primary drivers of 5G in the country, making significant efforts to provide 5G coverage across the nation through rapid deployments...
Latest monthly customer data collated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) shows Airtel added more active mobile users than Jio in January 2024...
Vodafone Idea (Vi) continued to lose both active mobile users as well as 3G and 4G users, according to data released by Trai on Monday.. Airtel and Jio added 3.55 million and 1.1 million active users, respectively, in January 2024, while Vi lost 1.72 million active users, latest customer data put out by Trai showed...
Latest Trai wireless broadband user data showed that Jio and Airtel added 4.18 million and 2.39 million 4G/5G users, respectively, in January, while Vi lost 0.51 million 3G/4G users..
Trai data showed that Jio added 4.17 million mobile users in January while Airtel reported a modest 0.75 million additions...
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