Shan Ahmed Khan

Bharti Airtel picked up the most new wireless subscribers in December, adding roughly 5.4 million. Rival Reliance Jio, still the market leader, tacked on close to 3 million, according to numbers from TRAI. Vodafone Idea dropped about 0.94 million subscribers, with BSNL also down by around 0.21 million. That left Jio sitting on 489.05 million wireless users by the end of December, while Airtel had 463.38 million. In broadband, Jio continued to dominate, reporting 514 million subscribers, ahead of Airtel’s 314 million and Vodafone Idea’s 128 million. Active user data from the visitor location register showed roughly 1.16 billion SIMs on the network. Airtel’s active base came in at nearly 99%, while BSNL’s lagged at 58.2%.