KOLKATA: Reliance Jio Infocomm added as many as 6.11 million customers in November, taking its market share past 13% while rivals Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular registered comparatively lower customer gains of 4.34 million, 2.7 million and 3.19 million respectively, according to data put out by the telecom regulator.

Newcomer Jio continued to steadily climb in terms of market share, taking it to 13.08%, up from 12.39% in October, 11.72% in September and 11.19% in August, as per data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Thursday.

Bharti Airtel, however, continued to remain India's biggest telco with 289.53 million customers, while Mukesh Ambani-led Jio's subscriber base has grown to a shade over 152 million, end-November. Vodafone India and Idea's customer base stood at 211.02 million and 194.06 million respectively.
State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) reported a shade over 1 million customer adds in November, taking its market share to 9.25% from 9.03% in the previous month.

Reliance Communications (RCom) lost a whopping 25.75 million customers in November following its announcement in October that it would be shutting down its 2G and 3G wireless operations and run a non-mobile business.

Trai's subscriber data showed Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea also registered gains in market share to 24.91%, 18.15% and 16.69% from 24.21%, 17.68% band 16.20% in October respectively.

Visitor location register (VLR), a key metric reflecting the number of active subscribers on a mobile network, indicated that 99.23% of users were active for Bharti Airtel, 94.87% for Vodafone India, 102.47% for Idea and 81.45% for Reliance Jio.
Trai data showed the total base of phone subscribers fell to 1,185.88 million in end-November from 1,201.72 million in end-October, reflecting a 1.32% dip.