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Bharti Airtel Gains The Most As Telecom Churn Doubles During Pandemic

Bharti Airtel added twice the number of regularly paying users compared to Reliance Jio in the April 2020 - February 2021 period.

<div class="paragraphs"><p>An employee serves a customer at a stall selling Bharti Airtel Ltd. SIM cards outside a mobile phone store in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)</p></div>
An employee serves a customer at a stall selling Bharti Airtel Ltd. SIM cards outside a mobile phone store in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Bharti Airtel Ltd. gained the most as the churn rate in India’s telecom sector doubled during the pandemic.The sector’s mobile network portability churn rate rose to 1% in February compared with 0.5% a year earlier, according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India data. The average during the period was 0.6%.
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