NEW DELHI: In just over two years of commercial launch, Reliance Jio has become the largest wired broadband service provider toppling Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), data showed.
Reliance Jio’s wired broadband subscribers rose to 4.34 million in November 2021 from 4.16 million in the previous month while the number of subscribers of BSNL dropped from 4.72 million in October 2021 to 4.2 million November 2021.
Thus, by the end of November 2021, the number of wired broadband subscribers of Reliance Jio was 0.14 million more than that of BSNL. Reliance Jio launched wired broadband service in September 2019 while BSNL has been providing this service for more than two decades.
According to the monthly telecom subscribers report released by the TRAI, the number of wired broadband subscribers of Bharti Airtel increased to 4.08 million in November 2021
