Mumbai: Reliance Jio added 3.11 million mobile subscribers in the month of May followed by Bharti Airtel at 1.02 million, as per subscription data by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Vodafone Idea lost 0.75 million subscribers during the same period.

The total number of mobile subscribers increased from 1,142.66 million to 1,145.50 million registering a growth of 0.25 per cent. The wireless subscription in urban areas increased from 623.78 million to 624.55 million and in rural areas increased from 518.88 million to 520.96 million.

There were a total of 1145.50 active mobile subscribers (VLR subscribers) during the month. Reliance Jio had the greatest number of VLR subscribers at 383.31 million followed by Bharti Airtel at 362.18 million and Vodafone Idea at 220.04 million.

As per data received from 664 operators in May, the total broadband subscribers increased from 788.77 million to 794.68 million. Out of which, 28.10 million were wired subscribers, 765.55 million were mobile device users and 1.03 million were fixed broadband users.

The top five wired broadband service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm at 5.89 million, followed by Bharti Airtel at 4.74 million, BSNL at 3.82 million, Atria Convergence Technologies at 2.10 million and Hathway Cable and Datacom at 1.11 million subscribers.

The top five wireless broadband service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm at 408.79 million, Bharti Airtel at 212.35 million, Vodafone Idea at 123.23 million, BSNL at 21.70 million and Intech Online at 0.21 million.

The total number of wireline subscribers increased from 25.16 million to 25.23 million in May.

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,167.82 million to 1,170.72 million. Urban subscription grew from 646.99 million to 647.81 million and rural subscription grew from 520.82 million to 522.92 million.