The Business Bytes
TBB BUREAU
BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 18, 2022
Further consolidating its number one position in Odisha as the most preferred digital service provider, Reliance Jio added around 71,000 new mobile subscribers and over 8,100 JioFiber high-speed broadband subscribers in the month of April 2022, as per the latest telecom subscriber data released by TRAI. With this, total mobile subscriber base of Jio in Odisha has gone up to 1.34 crore achieving overall 41.3 per cent subscriber market share in the State. Significantly, Jio witnessed massive gains in its active mobile subscriber base which has reached 99.91 per cent in April 2022 and has around 45 per cent market share in terms of active mobile subscribers in the State.
As per the TRAI data, Odisha witnessed an increase of 43,000 new mobile subscribers taking total subscribers in the State to 3.25 crore in April wherein Jio added highest 71,000 new users followed by BSNL which added 17,000 subscribers in the month. Both Airtel and Vodafone lost thousands of mobile users in the State in the month of April, the data released by TRAI revealed.
Nationally, Jio also added highest number of new mobile subscribers in April, adding over 16.82 lakh new customers, more than double of the nearest competitor.
As per the latest wireline subscriber data released by TRAI, Jio added highest 8100 new JioFiber high-speed broadband subscribers in Odisha in the month of April, taking the total number of JioFiber subscribers in Odisha to 1.35 lakh, thus further consolidating its leadership position in high-speed broadband segment in the State.
This has been fuelled by the continuing rapid expansion of JioFiber, the most popular high-speed broadband service in the country, across various key cities and towns in Odisha. JioFiber is presently available in key localities of 29 cities and towns across Odisha including Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Jatni, Angul, Sambalpur, Rourkela, Jharsuguda, Belpahar, Brajaraj Nagar, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Keonjhar, Bhawanipatna, Koraput, Rayagada, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Jajapur Road, Bhadrak, Talcher, Khordha, Berhampur, Balasore, Jeypore, Rajganagpur, Dhenkanal, Semiliguda, Bargarh and fast expanding its services to other major cities and towns across the state.
