Last updated on December 22nd, 2022 at 04:21 am
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released telecom subscription data for the month of October 2022 in which Jio and Airtel have managed to add almost double the wireless customers as compared to September 2022 and have 71.12M wired Broadband customers and standing at the top position in the Indian Telecom Market. Airtel with 5.41M Broadband customers stood second and the Once a Kind, BSNL has slipped to the third position and now has 3.95M Broadband customers only. Vi again lost a large number of wireless customers. BSNL continue to disappoint since the beginning of this financial year.
Wireless Customers
As can be seen in the below table, the biggest gainer is again Jio and Airtel. Jio has added more than 14 lakh customers and Airtel added more than 8 Lakh customers. The one of reasons may be the 5G services of these two telcos. As of now, Airtel has launched 5G Plus services in 14 cities across 12 circles and currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur, Varanasi, Panipat, Gurugram, Guwahati, Patna, Lucknow, and Shimla.
Jio True 5G is also available in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Varanasi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Nathdwara, and all 33 district headquarters of Gujarat. Jio has also launched recently Jio True 5G and Jio True 5G powered Wi-Fi services in the holy shrine of Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga and the Shri Mahakaal Mahalok. Jio is increasing the Jio 5G footprint city by city on an ongoing basis and claiming that Jio 5G will be available to every town, every taluka, and every tehsil of the country by December 2023.
Customers are leaving Vi and Vi has lost more than 75 Lakh customers in the last two months. BSNL keeps the trend of losing customers.
Wireline Customers
All three major private operators’ performance is almost steady while BSNL continues to lose landline customers. The details of Wireline customers of these telecom service providers are shown in the below table.
| Telecom Service Provider | Wireless customer added in Oct-2022 (Lakh) | Wireless customer added in Sept-2022 (Lakh) | Wireline customer added in Oct-2022 (Lakh) | Wireline customer added in Sept-2022 (Lakh) |
| Jio | 14.14 | 7.25 | 2.47 | 2.99 |
| Airtel | 8.05 | 4.13 | 1.05 | 2.07 |
| Vodafone-Idea (Vi) | -35.10 | -40.12 | 0.21 | 0.31 |
| BSNL | -5.19 | -7.83 | -0.05 | -0.32 |
Internet Customers
Other than major TSPs, many cable operators also offer Broadband customers on fiber/ cable or Wi-Fi. ACT and Hathway offer Broadband services on fiber while Tikona provides Wireless Broadband service. Vodafone-Idea offers Broadband services over FTTH through YOU Broadband service provider.
Wired line Broadband services offer higher download speed as compared to wireless Internet services. All TSPs also have many attractive plans for customers as per their demand to lure them. The below table shows the Internet customers of all TSPs and Cable operators.
Jio & Airtel has added wireline Broadband customers while BSNL lost Broadband customers in spite of having more lucrative plans. Hathway and ACT are keeping numbers almost the same as of the previous month only. The details of Internet customers are shown in the below table
| Internet Service Provider | Wired Broadband customer as on Oct-2022 (Millions) | Wired Broadband customer as on Sept-2022 (Millions) | Total Wireless Broadband customer as on Oct-2022 (Millions) | Total Wireless Broadband customer as on Sept-2022 (Millions) |
| Jio | 7.12 | 6.83 | 421.38 | 419.97 |
| Airtel | 5.41 | 5.27 | 222.85 | 219.82 |
| Vodafone-Idea (Vi) | NA | NA | 123.36 | 123.20 |
| BSNL | 3.95 | 3.91 | 22.10 | 21.71 |
| ACT | 2.14 | 2.14 | NA | NA |
| Hathway | 1.13 | 1.13 | NA | NA |
| Tikona | NA | NA | 0.23 | 0.23 |
Anyway, in the racing of these TSPs, customers get the best plans at affordable prices from the TSP of their choice.
