{"id":1045495,"date":"2026-10-28T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045495"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:01:04","slug":"jio-edges-past-airtel-in-september-mobile-subscriber-additions-retains-market-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/jio-edges-past-airtel-in-september-mobile-subscriber-additions-retains-market-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Jio edges past Airtel in September mobile subscriber additions, retains market lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Jio narrowly outpaced Bharti Airtel in mobile subscriber additions in September, gaining 27.13 lakh users against its rival\u2019s 26.92 lakh, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The additions took Jio\u2019s wireless mobile subscriber base to 51.11 crore at the end of September 2026, while Airtel\u2019s tally stood at 49.43 crore. Jio remained the country\u2019s largest mobile operator, with a market share of 39.32 per cent, followed by Airtel at 38.02 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Jio narrowly outpaced Bharti Airtel in mobile subscriber additions in September, gaining 27.13 lakh users against its rival\u2019s 26.92 lakh, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday. The additions took Jio\u2019s wireless mobile subscriber base to 51.11 crore at the end of September 2026, while Airtel\u2019s tally stood at 49.43 crore. Jio remained the country\u2019s largest mobile operator, with a market share of 39.32 per cent, followed by Airtel at 38.02 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045495","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045499,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045495\/revisions\/1045499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}