{"id":1039515,"date":"2026-09-30T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039515"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:23:39","slug":"jio-strengthens-wireless-lead-in-aug-vodafone-idea-bsnl-add-highest-subscribers-in-1-year-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/jio-strengthens-wireless-lead-in-aug-vodafone-idea-bsnl-add-highest-subscribers-in-1-year-analysts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jio strengthens wireless lead in Aug; Vodafone Idea, BSNL add highest subscribers in 1 year: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Reliance Jio strengthened its wireless market lead by adding 2.4 million subscribers, including machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, in August, analysts said, analysing the latest data put out by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). <\/p>\n<p>They added that Vodafone Idea (Vi) and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited\u2019s (BSNL) wireless subscriber additions were the highest in a year in the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Reliance Jio strengthened its wireless market lead by adding 2.4 million subscribers, including machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, in August, analysts said, analysing the latest data put out by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). They added that Vodafone Idea (Vi) and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited\u2019s (BSNL) wireless subscriber additions were the highest in a year in the month.<\/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-1039515","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\/1039515","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=1039515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039516,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039515\/revisions\/1039516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}