{"id":1010112,"date":"2026-05-27T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010112"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:02:23","slug":"telecom-users-up-nearly-7-million-in-april-airtel-jio-gain-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/telecom-users-up-nearly-7-million-in-april-airtel-jio-gain-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom users up nearly 7 million in April; Airtel, Jio gain most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The nation&#8217;s telecom subscriber base grew by a net 6.96 million users in April, driven by strong wireless additions and growth in broadband users, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday showed. <\/p>\n<p>Total telephone subscribers rose to 1.34 billion, with wireless subscribers accounting for most of the growth. Wireless users increased by a net 6.17 million to 1.27 billion by the end of April, while wireline subscribers grew by 0.33 million, showed Trai data. <\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel added the highest number of users during the month at 3.13 million, followed by Reliance Jio with 2.94 million additions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The nation&#8217;s telecom subscriber base grew by a net 6.96 million users in April, driven by strong wireless additions and growth in broadband users, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday showed. Total telephone subscribers rose to 1.34 billion, with wireless subscribers accounting for most of the growth. Wireless users increased by a net 6.17 million to 1.27 billion by the end of April, while wireline subscribers grew by 0.33 million, showed Trai data. Bharti Airtel added the highest number of users during the month at 3.13 million, followed by Reliance Jio with [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010112","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=1010112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010122,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010112\/revisions\/1010122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}