Reliance Jio was the company to connect the most new customers in March 2025. This month, about 74 percent of the new mobile customers joined the entire country, ie 2.17 million (21.7 lakh) customers only came to Jio. Jio not only increased the total number of customers, but was ahead in every category. Whether wireless customers, wired internet connection or 5G airfiber service. Jio’s growth was almost double from other big companies like Airtel. Especially in the data of VLR i.e. Visitor Location Register, Jio got a market share of 86 percent by adding 5.03 million (50.3 lakh) active customers.
Jio also showed fastest growth in the area of 5G fixed wireless access (FWA). This segment is growing rapidly in the whole world and its effect is clearly visible in India. By March 2025, the number of FWA customers of Jio reached 5.57 million (55.7 lakh) and it won 82 percent market share in the region. According to a report, in the second half of 2024, Jio was India’s fastest mobile service provider, especially in 5G network.
According to the latest report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in March 2025, the total wireless (mobile and 5G FWA) number of customers of the country increased to 1,163.76 million (116.3 crore), which was 1,160.33 million (116 million) in February 2025. That is, a monthly increase of 0.28 percent in the total number of mobile users in the country was recorded.
Talking about urban and rural areas, there was a slight decline in the number of mobile customers in urban areas, where it declined from 634 million in February to 632.57 million in March. At the same time, customer number in rural areas increased from 526.33 million to 531.18 million. This means that the reach of mobile services in rural India is continuously increasing.
If we look at the data of mobile (wireless) customers, then in March 2025, their number increased from 1,154.05 million to 1,156.99 million, which shows a monthly increase of 0.25 percent. There was a slight growth of 627.94 million to 628.31 million in urban areas, while in rural areas there was a higher rise in rural areas from 526.11 million to 528.68 million.
Delhi was at the forefront of the field-wise figures, where the tele-density was 275.79 percent, that is, on an average, every person has about three mobile connections. In contrast, this figure was recorded at 57.23 percent in Bihar.
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