{"id":1000735,"date":"2026-04-02T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000735"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:01:44","slug":"airtel-continues-to-lead-peers-in-subs-addition-in-feb26-trai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/airtel-continues-to-lead-peers-in-subs-addition-in-feb26-trai\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel continues to lead peers in subs addition in Feb\u201926: TRAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel maintained its lead in subscriber additions in February 2026, adding 4.86 million wireless users, significantly ahead of Reliance Jio, which added 1.62 million subscribers, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). <\/p>\n<p>After months of sustained reduction in total subscriber base, Vodafone Idea added 21, 927 users to its overall subscriber base in February. However, much of this acceleration in subscriber addition came from the telco\u2019s performance in the M2M or enterprise connections segment, a significantly lower average revenue per user (Arpu) business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel maintained its lead in subscriber additions in February 2026, adding 4.86 million wireless users, significantly ahead of Reliance Jio, which added 1.62 million subscribers, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). After months of sustained reduction in total subscriber base, Vodafone Idea added 21, 927 users to its overall subscriber base in February. However, much of this acceleration in subscriber addition came from the telco\u2019s performance in the M2M or enterprise connections segment, a significantly lower average revenue per user (Arpu) business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}