The number of telecom users in the country reached 119 crores!
The number of telephone subscribers in the country has increased to 118.99 crores. This number was 118.72 crores in november and a slight increase has been seen in December. This information has come to light in a recent report of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of india (TRAI). In december, reliance jio has added new customers in both mobile and fixed line sectors, while vodafone Idea has suffered a big loss.
jio is the largest company in the country
According to TRAI, reliance jio is the largest telecom company in the country and its total number of customers is 47.66 crores. airtel is the second largest telecom company in the country with 28.93 crore users and vodafone Idea is the third largest telecom company in the country with 12.64 crore users. jio added 39.1 lakh and airtel 10.3 lakh new customers in December. On the other hand, vodafone Idea, bsnl and MTNL have seen a decline in their customers. In december, vodafone Idea lost 17.15 lakh customers, while bsnl and MTNL lost 3,16,599 and 8,96,988 respectively. Let us tell you that after the recharges of private companies became expensive, customers started joining bsnl, but now the old trend has returned. people have now started going back to private companies.
More users in cities than villages
The latest report shows that the number of urban telecom users in the country is increasing and the number of rural users is declining. In december, urban customers increased from 65.99 crore in november to 66.34 crore, while rural customers have decreased. There were 52.73 crore customers in villages in november, which decreased to 52.66 crore in December. According to the report, the number of wireless subscribers in the country increased to 115.07 crores in december and the number of wireline subscribers increased to 3.93 crores.
