State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has surpassed Bharti Airtel in new mobile subscriber additions for the first time in nearly a year while Reliance Jio retained its lead in August according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday. India’s total telephone subscriber base rose to 122.45 crore at the end of August from 122 crore in July driven by a net addition of 35.19 lakh mobile users. Reliance Jio topped the list with over 19 lakh new subscribers followed by BSNL with 13.85 lakh additions while Airtel gained 4.96 lakh new customers during the month the data showed. Reliance Jio Tops Chart In Aug BSNL had pipped all telecom operators in September 2024 after a tariff hike by private telecom operators even though it was providing 3G services at that time. The state-owned firm recently launched its 4G service across the nation. Vodafone Idea was the biggest loser in the segment with a decline of 3.08 net mobile subscribers on its network in August according to the data. Reliance Jio led the broadband segment with over 50 crore customers comprising its mobile and fixed line connections. It was followed by Bharti Airtel with 30.9 crore broadband connections Vodafone Idea 12.7 crore BSNL 3.43 crore and Atria Convergence with 23.5 lakh broadband connections. The decline in the wireline base of Reliance Jio follows the categorisation of fixed wireless access (FWA) as wireless customers that were earlier reported as part of the wireline segment.  The company started reporting the number of UBR (unlicensed band radio) FWA subscribers from August onwards. The number of wireless (5G FWA) subscribers increased to 89 lakh at the end of August 2025 from 84 lakh in July while UBR FWA subscription stood at 2.1 million at the end of August 2025. Tata Teleservices Bharti Airtel Vodafone Idea In Wireline Segment The growth in the wireline segment was led by Tata Teleservices with net subscriber addition of 1.17 lakh followed by Bharti Airtel with 1.08 lakh customers and Vodafone Idea with 24215 users.  State-owned telecom operators BSNL and MTNL continued to lose customers in the segment. MTNL lost 1.87 lakh wireline connections and BSNL fell by 5647 connections.  Bharti Airtel led the M2M (machine-to-machine) cellular mobile connections of 5.26 crore with a market share of 58.66 per cent followed by Vodafone Idea Reliance Jio Infocom Limited and BSNL with 19.4 per cent 17.94 per cent and 4.01 per cent respectively.  (With Inputs From PTI)