New Delhi, March 19 Bharti Airtel added 44.06 lakh wireless subscribers in January, achieving significant gains in the first month of the calendar year, while Reliance Jio registered 24.37 lakh new mobile users, according to monthly data released by telecom regulator Trai on Thursday.
India's largest telecom company, Jio, added 24.37 lakh mobile users in January, bringing its total wireless subscriber count to 49.14 crore.
Notably, Bharti Airtel recorded substantial gains during the month, adding 44.06 lakh wireless users, bringing its subscriber base to 46.77 crore in January.
Airtel's subscriber base stood at 46.33 crore in December 2025, according to data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).
Vodafone Idea lost 4.11 lakh mobile users, as its wireless customer count shrank to 19.9 crore in January.
"According to information received from 1,480 operators for the month of January 2026, the total number of broadband subscribers increased from 1,050.60 million at the end of December 2025 to 1,052.72 million at the end of January 2026, with a monthly growth rate of 0.20 per cent," Trai said in a statement.
Reliance Jio topped the list of broadband subscribers (wired and wireless combined), with 51.75 crore users, followed by Airtel (35.92 crore), and Vodafone Idea (12.89 crore) as of January 31, 2026.
Given its sheer numbers, Jio accounted for over 49 per cent of India's broadband services market, with Airtel's market share at 34.13 per cent.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd had a broadband subscriber base of 2.96 crore.