Bad news for Mukesh Ambani: In a matter of good news for Bharti Airtel Chairman and bad news for Mukesh Ambani the owner of Reliance Jio Bharti Airtel has surpassed Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Jio in adding more subscribers in January 2025. Here are all details you need to know. According to a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India report released on Monday Telecom user base in the country increased marginally to 119 crore in January with Airtel leading the chart in new subscriber additions across wireline and mobile segments. The number of total telephone subscribers in India increased from 1189.92 million at the end of December 2024 to 1192.03 million at the end of January 2025 thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.18 per cent the report said. Airtel leads mobile and wireline segment The report also goes on to say that Bharti Airtel led the growth in mobile and wireline segment with net addition of 16.53 lakh and 1.17 lakh customers respectively in January. The regulator in the telecom subscription data for January 2025 reclassified 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) as a wireless service which led to the biggest decline in Reliance Jio wireline subscriber base of over 43.36 lakh. At present only Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel provide 5G FWA service. Reliance Jio leads the 5G FWA segment with 48.44 lakh subscribers while Airtel has 8.72 lakh subscribers. In the mobile segment Reliance Jio led the market with 46.5 crore subscribers followed by Airtel with 38.69 crore customers in January 2025. Vodafone Idea (Vi) continues to be the biggest loser Vodafone Idea (Vi) continues to be the biggest loser in the segment. The company lost over 13 lakh mobile subscribers in January. State-run BSNL and MTNL lost 3.69 lakh and 2617 customers respectively. In the wireline segment BSNL lost 39953 subscribers MTNL 9904 Quadrant 4741 Vi 3447 and STPL 1690. Trai published old broadband data which shows Reliance leading the segment with 46.5 crore wireless and 1.14 crore wireline connections as of November 2024. It is followed by Bharti Airtel with 28 crore wireless broadband customers and 8.55 crore wired broadband connections. According to the report Bharti Airtel led machine-to-machine (M2M) connections with 3.3 crore subscribers followed by Vi with 1.5 crore customers Reliance Jio 1.09 crore subscribers and BSNL with 32.6 lakh subscribers. (With inputs from agencies)