The commercial rollout of its fixed-line broadband services, Reliance Jio has toppled 20 -year-old state-run telecom company BSNL as the top service provider in the segment.
According to a monthly telecom subscribers report released by the telecom regulator Trai, Jio now leads the fixed-line broadband segment with 4.34 million customers.
The segment had been dominated by state-run telecom and reliance Jio fixed-line broadband
customer base increased to 4.34 million in November from 4.16 million in October. BSNL's customer base declined to 4.2 million in November from 4.72 million in October and Bharti Airtel fixed line broadband customer base stood at 4.08 million in November.
Jio started the commercial roll out of fixed line broadband service, JioFibre, in September 2019. While Jio started from scratch, BSNL had 8.69 million wired broadband customers in September 2019.
Bharti Airtel's wired broadband subscriber base has grown by about 70 per cent to 4.08 million in November 2021 from 2.41 million in September 2019.
The broadband subscribers in the country grew to 801.6 million in November from 798.95 million in October with Reliance Jio maintaining its lead in the segment, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) subscribers report.
"Top five service providers constituted 98.68 per cent market share of the total broadband subscribers at the end of November," Trai said.
Reliance Jio's total broadband subscriber base stood at 432.96 million in November. It was followed by Bharti Airtel with 210.10 million broadband customers.
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