Reliance Jio subscriber addition drops to 4 million in August

Another striking piece of data in the Trai numbers is Tata Teleservices subscriber addition in August

Reliance Jio, which disrupted the telecom market since its launch last year, has started to witness a slowdown in subscriber additions while it continues to gain market share. Data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) show the Mukesh Ambani-owned company added 4.09 million customers in August. This is the second-lowest monthly incremental growth for the company since its launch.

Following the commercial roll-out of Jio in September 2016, it has added more than 4 million subscribers every month barring April when the number fell to 3.87 million as the firm started charging for its services. Till January, Jio