Jio added 29 lakh, new users, in July

Reliance Jio's dominance in the telecom sector is increasing. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Jio added 29.4 lakh, new users, to its network in July. With this, the number of users of the Jio network has increased to 41.59 crores.
Bharti Airtel added 5.1 lakh, new users, in July. After which the number of Airtel subscribers increased to 36.34 crores. At the same time, the number of users of Vodafone Idea is continuously decreasing. Vodafone-Idea company's 15.4 lakh users left the network in July. With this, the total number of subscribers of the company has come down to 25.51 crores.
According to the TRAI report, the number of mobile phone users in the country increased by 0.06% in the month of July. At present, there are about 1148 million mobile phone users in the country. Whereas in June this figure was 114.7 crores.
According to TRAI, the market share of Reliance Jio has increased from 36% to 36.23% in the telecom market, while the market share of Bharti Airtel has increased from 31.63% to 31.66%. At the same time, the share of Vodafone-Idea has come down from 22.37 to 22.22% in comparison to June.
While the number of mobile phone users has increased in urban areas, there has been a slight decrease in the number of mobile phone users in rural areas. Compared to June, the number of users in urban areas increased from 64.90 million to 65.04 million, while the number of users in rural areas decreased from 52.39 million to 52.33 million.
In its annual AGM, Reliance had told that it will launch the 5G service by Diwali this year. At the same time, Airtel also plans to launch the 5G service in October.