Bharti Airtel maintained its lead in subscriber additions in May 2026, adding 2.93 million wireless users, while market leader Reliance Jio trailed slightly at 2.16 million, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Vodafone Idea continued to report addition in subscribers, picking up pace at 121,289 additions (April: 53,257) to its overall subscriber base. However, much of this acceleration in subscriber addition continues to come from the telco’s performance in the M2M or enterprise connections segment, a significantly lower average revenue per user (Arpu) business.