Bharti Airtel<\/a> and Vodafone Idea<\/a> (Vi), however, lost 1.12 million and 4.82 million customers respectively in June, in the aftermath of the December 2019 hikes and post-lockdown pangs as many feature phone users with prepaid connections gave up mobile connections<\/a> as they were unable to recharge.
Last December, Airtel, Vi and Jio had increased bundled prepaid tariffs for the first time in 3 years by around 14-33%.
Jio’s June user base swelled to 397.24 million, while Airtel’s and Vi’s fell to 316.67 million and 305.10 million, as per latest telco subscriber data collated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and issued Thursday.
Airtel and Vi though have reported customer bases of 279.87 million and 279.80 million respectively in their June quarter earnings numbers, while Jio reported a user base of 398.3 million in the first quarter, FY21.
Jio widened customer market share to 34.82% (34.33%), while Airtel and Vi's marginally narrowed to 27.76% (27.78%) and 26.75% (27.09%) respectively, over the previous month respectively, Trai data showed.
Visitor Location Register (VLR), a key metric reflecting the number of active subscribers on a mobile network, indicated that 98.14% of the users were active for Airtel, 89.49% for Vi and 78.15% for Jio.
Data collated by the telecom regulator showed India's mobile user base fell by 3.2 million to 1.14 billion in June.
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