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%.