{"id":958626,"date":"2025-08-30T09:26:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958626"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:08:31","slug":"reliance-jio-surpasses-airtel-in-subscriber-growth-vodafone-idea-and-bsnl-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/30\/reliance-jio-surpasses-airtel-in-subscriber-growth-vodafone-idea-and-bsnl-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliance Jio surpasses Airtel in subscriber growth, Vodafone Idea and BSNL struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Jio pipped Bharti Airtel in mobile subscriber additions in July while Vodafone Idea and state-run BSNL ceded more ground.<\/p>\n<p>As per data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Friday, the country&#8217;s largest operator Jio added 482,954 subscribers followed by second-largest telco Airtel, which added 464,437 during the reported period.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Idea though lost 359,199 subscribers followed by BSNL, which lost 100,707 subscribers. Another state-run firm MTNL, too, lost 2m472 users in the month. MTNL offers services in Delhi and Mumbai, and its network is being maintained and operated by BSNL. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Jio pipped Bharti Airtel in mobile subscriber additions in July while Vodafone Idea and state-run BSNL ceded more ground. As per data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Friday, the country&#8217;s largest operator Jio added 482,954 subscribers followed by second-largest telco Airtel, which added 464,437 during the reported period. Vodafone Idea though lost 359,199 subscribers followed by BSNL, which lost 100,707 subscribers. Another state-run firm MTNL, too, lost 2m472 users in the month. MTNL offers services in Delhi and Mumbai, and its network is being maintained and operated by BSNL.<\/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-958626","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\/958626","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=958626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}