BSNL loses subscribers after four months, Jio gains

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), which was seen gaining mobile users after tariff hikes by private telecom operators in July last year, has now started seeing subscribers loss, according to data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).

In November, the telecom operator lost 344,473 mobile users after continuously adding the subscribers for four straight months. BSNL, which was benefitting from its low tariffs, added close to 7 million mobile users from July to October period.