In January 2024, Airtel gained more active mobile users than Jio, adding 3.55 million compared to Jio s 1.1 million. However, Jio attracted more high-paying 4G and 5G users than Airtel during the same period. Vodafone Idea (Vi) continued to lose both active mobile users and 3G/4G users.
The absence of 5G services is a key factor behind the faster erosion of marketshare of the No. 3 carrier with customers opting for Airtel and Reliance Jio, said industry experts.
but all three major markets did bounce back by the afternoon. economic data was positive thursday, but we ll see what impact there is today from grim news out of europe. eurozone unemployment has hit another record high at 11.7% in october. the number of retailers posted poor sales hammered by superstorm sandy s impact on the northeast. a bankruptcy judge has given hostess final clearance to start selling off assets and approved $1.8 million in bonuses for company executives. verizon wireless tops this year s consumer reports ranking of major carriers. it was at&t that came in last behind sprint and t-mobile, except among 4g users where it was the best. and where is the best country to be born in 2013? well, when factoring in life expectancy, divorce rates and rainfall, it s switzerland, according to the economist. i bet all the chocolate doesn t hurt. the u.s. is tied with germany at 16.
is pulling the plug on its all you can eat data plans. in fact they did away with it several years ago, but there are still many people on the so-called unemployment dollars plans. what happened is for the smartphone users on 3g, if they exceed three gigabytes of data, which apparently with the phones that are like mini computers, it s not hard to do, your download speed will be slowed down considerably. speeds will be slowed down for 4g users after five gigabytes of data. they will get a warning message, a text message when you get close to that cap on the data storage. essentially carriers are not happy that they ve been spending billions of dollars on building up these networks, but a lot of the profits go to internet companies like google and the device makers like apple. now they want to get their slice of the pie. bill: i bet they do. what are the options for a consumer? reporter: several things. obviously the first one, you can they say use wi-fi connection, that means