Key Highlights

  • Reliance Jio subscriber base at 10.86 crore; market share 9.29%.
  • Smaller players like Tata Docomo and Aircel have lost market share in the month of March.
  • Airtel still a big time player with a total subscriber base of 27.3 crore.

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Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocom Ltd garnered 9.29% market share as on March 31, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said on Friday.

Reliance Jio has 10.86 crore subscribers at the end of March 31, 2017. 

TRAI’s data showed that Jio’s total subscribers were 10.2 crore in February and added 58 lakh new subscribers in one month with its Prime membership and other promotional offers.

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Bharti Airtel still remained India’s telecom major with 27.3 crore wireless subscribers in March.

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However subscriber base of small time players were seen to decrease from its previous month.

Tata Docomo that had a 4.40% market share dropped to 4.19% in March. Its subscriber base dropped 22,30,840  to 4.8 crore.

Similarly Aircel that had a market share of 7.82% in February dropped to 7.77% in March declining 15,374 to 90,899,868 (9crore).

“Total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & LTE) increased from 1,164.20 million at the end of Feb-17 to 1,170.18 million at the end of Mar-17, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 0.51%,” TRAI said.