Jio crosses 50 million subscribers in 83 days

NEW DELHI: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL) has already crossed 50 million user mark as on November 26, becoming India‘s top carrier by mobile broadband user base.

As for the 50 million user base, Airtel reached the same milestone in 12 years while Vodafone and Idea took 13 years each. Moreover, this also means that the subscriber base of Jio has already reached one-fifth that of Bharti Airtel, which had 262.67 million mobile subscribers in October.

The company which had professed a goal of one hundred million users by the end of the fiscal year has impressively traversed the half way mark in less than three months of official launch. Notably, Bharti Airtel had 41 million 3G and 4G customers as of September 30.