The countdown to the listing of Reliance Jio has begun. The company will be listed on the stock market on Wednesday at 10 am. Before that, Mukesh Ambani has got another good news. According to data provided by telecom regulator TRAI, Reliance Jio added 27.13 lakh mobile customers in the month of September. This is more than 26.92 lakh new customers of Bharti Airtel. Vodafone Idea added 5.50 lakh and public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) 6.26 lakh mobile customers in September, according to monthly data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Jio’s mobile subscriber base rose to 51.11 crore at the end of September, while Airtel’s subscriber base stood at 49.43 crore. Vodafone Idea’s mobile subscriber base was over 20 crore and BSNL’s was 9.43 crore. Let us also tell you what kind of statistics have come up…

Jio has the highest share

According to the data, the total number of wireless mobile subscribers in the country increased by 65.74 lakh to around 130 crore at the end of September, from 129.34 crore at the end of August. The monthly growth rate during this period was 0.51 percent. Jio had the highest share of the mobile subscriber market at 39.32 percent. After this, Airtel had 38.02 percent and Vodafone Idea had 15.39 percent. The total number of wireless subscribers including mobile and fixed wireless access connections in the country increased by 69.41 lakh to 131.92 crore in September. At the same time, the total number of telephone subscribers, including wireline connections, has increased to 136.79 crore. At the end of September, the number of active wireless mobile subscribers was 121.28 crore. During this period, 1.68 crore customers requested for mobile number portability facility.

Airtel is leading on this front

According to TRAI data, the number of broadband subscribers in the country increased from 110.12 crore in August to 110.77 crore in September. An increase of 0.59 percent was recorded on a monthly basis. At the same time, the number of machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile connections rose to 144 million at the end of September from around 140 million at the end of August 2026. Airtel had the highest share of M2M connections at 61.16 percent. After this, Reliance Jio had 19.29 percent, Vodafone Idea 16.14 percent and BSNL 3.41 percent. Smart meters, vehicle tracking devices and industrial machines themselves exchange data through M2M connections.