Reliance Communications has now slipped to the fourth place in terms of total mobile users, according to a report by Live Mint. The company has reportedly said that it implemented a routine clean-up of its subscriber base, resulting in more than 10 million subscribers being removed in the month of September, according to the monthly numbers revealed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for the company said that, “Reliance Communications has deactivated the services of around 10 million unprofitable, low-end subscribers at the lowest end of the ARPU (average revenue per user) range, who had not used their phones for over two months. This is in line with the industry practice and has no impact on customer experience or (the Company’s) revenues.”The company’s mobile subscriber base in September stood at 116.26 million users. This placed it after competitor provider Idea Cellular, which boasted 127.22 million mobile users in the same period. The list was lead by Bharti Airtel, accounting for 193.38 million mobile subscribers in that period. Next on the list was Vodafone India with a subscription base of 155.53 million users. In August, Reliance Communications boasted 126.75 million subscribers, while Idea Cellular accounted for 126.02 million.
Reliance Communications has now culled out over 10 million users in September
Since then, the latter added 1.207 million users in September, the most that any telecom provider was able to gather in that period. Vodafone was able to add 1.205 million subscribers to its base while Airtel gathered 1.16 million more users to its fold. In terms of subscription market share, R-Com accounted for 13.35 percent of the market pie. Airtel, in the same period, held 22.21 percent of the market share, while Vodafone and Idea represented 17.87 percent and 14.61 percent respectively. The remainder of the market was divided among 10 other regional and national operators. A note-worthy mention here would be the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam, accounting for 11.24 percent of the market. Overall, the nation’s total subscription base fell by 0.7 percent in that month, dropping from 906.18 million users in August to 899.86 million in September. The total user base included fixed line subscribers as well as wireless or mobile subscribers. The number of fixed line subscribers also fell by around 1,70,000 to stand at 29.28 million users.
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