Look at which telco subscribers went to most and lockdown losses

Motilal Oswal highlights that the Telecom marketplace extra 3.4 mn gross subscribers in Nov’20 to get to a subscriber base of 1.15 bn (v/s just 3.2 mn provides in Oct’20). Continuing the development, Bharti Airtel has added larger gross and 4G subscribers vs Reliance Jio in the previous 4 months. An maximize in the gross subscriber base for Bharti Airtel /Reliance Jio stood at 4.4 mn / 1.9 mn in Nov’20 (v/s 3.7mn / 2.2 mn provides in Oct’20). Vodafone Strategy, on the other hand, shed 2.9 mn subscribers in Nov’20 (decline of 29 mn gross subscribers considering that April’20).

The market has cumulatively missing 5.5 mn gross subscribers considering the fact that the implementation of the nationwide lockdown in Mar ’20. The lively subscriber base saw a sharp improve of 7.5 mn to 968 mn in Nov’20 – the highest in 13 months – right after adding 2.5 mn subscribers in Oct’20 (nevertheless 21 mn underneath the peak given that March’20). This was mainly attributable to the uptick found in financial activity. Nevertheless, Bharti Airtel continued to report sturdy energetic subscriber provides with 3.9m, and Reliance Jio extra a modest 5.4 mn subscribers in Nov ’20.

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Bharti Airtel provides sturdy energetic subscribers, but slips to 2nd location:

Bharti Airtel ongoing the momentum with a solid 3.9 mn energetic subscriber provides (v/s 3 mn adds in Oct’20), reaching 323 mn subscribers in Nov’20. With this, Bharti Airtel slipped from its best place to possessing 33.4% share (+10bps Mom) in active SMS. Over-all, Bharti Airtel has added a total of 8.1 mn energetic subscribers considering the fact that Mar’20.

Bharti Airtel has extra 4.4 mn gross subscribers (v/s 3.7 mn additions in Oct’20 and 6.8 mn cumulative adds considering the fact that Mar’20) to achieve 335m. The quality of Bharti Airtel’s subscribers is reflected in its robust MBB subscriber provides of 4.2 mn (v/s RJio’s adds of 1.9 mn) – it accounts for 64% incremental subscriber market place share.

Reliance Jio regains leading place in lively SMS:

Reliance Jio extra 1.9 mn gross subscribers (v/s 2.2 mn extra in Oct’20), achieving 408 mn in Nov’20. Subsequently, gross SMS stood at 35.3% (flat Mom) it proceeds to keep the prime spot with 35.3% marketplace share. Reliance Jio’s regular monthly gross/MBB subscriber increase have slowed to a run-fee of 2 mn over the earlier 4 months, with 1.9 mn adds in Nov ’20 (v/s an typical 7 mn in the very last fiscal). Even so, energetic subscriber provides have been considerably stronger than gross subscribers at 5.4 mn (following attaining 1.1m in Oct’20) – they achieved 325 mn in Nov’20. With this, Reliance Jio attained the leading place with 33.5% share in energetic SMS (marginally foremost Bharti Airtel by 10 bps).