{"id":1016922,"date":"2026-06-26T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016922"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:20:44","slug":"airtel-outpaces-jio-in-may-wireless-user-gains-adds-2-93-million-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/airtel-outpaces-jio-in-may-wireless-user-gains-adds-2-93-million-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel outpaces Jio in May wireless user gains; adds 2.93 million subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Bharti Airtel added nearly 2.93 million wireless subscribers in the month of May, outpacing Reliance Jio&#8217;s 2.15 million additions, according to latest data posted by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). <\/p>\n<p>Reliance Jio, however, continued to dominate the market with a 39.27% share of the country&#8217;s wireless subscriber base at the end of May, followed by Bharti Airtel with 37.89%. Vodafone Idea retained a 15.56% market share, while state-run BSNL accounted for 7.28%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Bharti Airtel added nearly 2.93 million wireless subscribers in the month of May, outpacing Reliance Jio&#8217;s 2.15 million additions, according to latest data posted by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Reliance Jio, however, continued to dominate the market with a 39.27% share of the country&#8217;s wireless subscriber base at the end of May, followed by Bharti Airtel with 37.89%. Vodafone Idea retained a 15.56% market share, while state-run BSNL accounted for 7.28%.<\/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-1016922","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\/1016922","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=1016922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016941,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016922\/revisions\/1016941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}