New Delhi : State-owned BSNL has pipped Bharti Airtel in terms of new mobile customer addition after nearly a year, and Reliance Jio continued to lead the chart in August, according to data published by telecom regulator Trai on Monday.

📶 August Telecom Scorecard:

Jio: +1.95M 🔝

BSNL: +1.39M 📈

Airtel: +0.5M ⚖️

Vi: –0.31M 📉

BSNL’s comeback + Jio’s dominance - the telecom plot just got interesting.

Revival or reshuffle? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/qGko3w8Izu — Jay Matoliya 🐂 (@Jay_Matoliya) October 6, 2025

The number of total telephone subscribers in the country increased to 122.45 crore at the end of August from 122 crore in July.The growth was driven by the new net customer addition of 35.19 lakh in the mobile segment.

India’s telecom sector added 35.19 lakh new users in August, ta

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