India ended September with 1.168 billion telecom services subscribers, which represents an increase of 850,000 users from the previous month, according to a report from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The number of mobile subscribers rose by 660,000 to 1.148 billion in September, while the number of fixed-line subscribers increased by 190,000 to 20.08 million.

The regulator said Bharti Airtel added 3.77 million mobile customers in September, followed by Reliance Jio with 1.46 million net additions and BSNL with 78,454 net customer adds in the month. Vodafone Idea shed more than 4.65 million mobile customers, while MTNL lost 5,784 users in September.

The number of urban mobile subscribers rose by 1.23 million in the month to 626.16 million, while the urban landline customer base rose by 240,000 users to 18.10 million at end-September. The number of rural mobile customers decreased by 57,000 to 522.42 million and India’s rural fixed line subscriber base fell by 50,000 to 1.98 million.

Overall teledensity was 86.22 percent, with mobile penetration stood at 84.74 percent and landline penetration at 1.48 percent. Urban mobile teledensity was 134.37 percent and urban landline teledensity was 3.88 percent, while rural mobile teledensity was 58.74 percent and rural fixed line teledensity was 0.22 percent.

India ended September with 726.32 million broadband subscribers, of which 21.12 million were on fixed lines and 705.20 million on wireless connections.

TRAI said that, in September, 8.71 million subscribers requested Mobile Number Portability (MNP), bringing cumulative MNP requests to 512.10 million since implementation of the switching service. The number of active wireless subscribers was 958.45 million at end-September.