Reliance Jio added 2.94 million mobile phone users in July, taking its subscription base to 415.9 million subscribers, a continuing indication that its prolonged clean-up of low value users is over, according to the latest subscriber data collated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).<br /><br />By comparison, Bharti Airtel added a modest 0.51 million wireless subscribers, taking its total user base to 363.48 million, while Vodafone Idea's customer losses continued. The cash-strapped telco lost 1.54 million mobile customers in July, shrinking its user base further to 255.1 million, reflecting its continuing struggles in its 4G operations.<br />Jio and Airtel further widened their respective market shares to 36.23% (36%) and 31.66%(31.63%) over the previous month, while Vodafone-Idea's share narrowed to 22.22% (22.37%).Visitor Location Register, a key metric reflecting the number of active users on a mobile network, indicated that Bharti Airtel has 97.99% of its users active on the network, 91.88% for Jio and 85.03% for Vi.<br />The data collated by the regulator also showed that India's mobile user base rose marginally by 0.06% to 1.148 billion at the end of July, from 1.147 billion the month before.<br /><br />TRAI data showed that the overall wireless tele-density decreased marginally to 83.25% in July, from 83.27% in June.<br /><br />In July, 10.23 million subscribers submitted requests for mobile number portability, increasing the cumulative requests to 724.79 million by July-end.<br />Wireline subscribers increase ..<br />
