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  • Reliance Jio adds 1.68 mn wireless subscribers in April: Trai

    Reliance Jio adds 1.68 mn wireless subscribers in April: Trai

    Mumbai: Reliance Jio added 1.68 million wireless subscribers at the end of April, as per subscription data by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Bharti Airtel added 0.81 million wireless subscribers during the same period. Vodafone Idea lost 1.56 million wireless subscribers in April.

    The total number of wireless subscribers increased from 1,142.09 million to 1,142.66 million in April. The wireless subscription in urban areas decreased from 624.23 million to 623.78 million. However, wireless subscription in rural areas increased from 517.86 million to 518.88 million.

    As per Trai data, there were 1013.81 million active wireless subscribers during the month. Reliance Jio had the highest number of active wireless subscribers at 378.85 million followed by Bharti Airtel at 352.68 million and Vodafone Idea at 222.33 million. BSNL had 59.31 million active wireless subscribers.

    As per information received from 657 operators in April, Trai found that total broadband subscribers increased from 788.30 million to 788.77 million. The broadband subscribers comprised 759.87 million mobile device users, 27.25 million wired subscribers and 1.18 million fixed wireless subscribers.  

    The top five broadband service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm with 411.31 million subscribers, Bharti Airtel with 215.28 million subscribers, Vodafone Idea with 122.06 million subscribers, BSNL with 26.10 million subscribers and Atria Convergence with 2.08 million subscribers.

    The top five wired broadband service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm with 5.63 million subscribers, Bharti Airtel with 4.85 million subscribers, BSNL with 3.80 million subscribers, Atria Convergence with 2.08 million subscribers and Hathway Cable and Datacom with 1.11 million subscribers.

    The top five wireless broadband service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm, with 405.68 million subscribers, Bharti Airtel with 210.43 million subscribers, Vodafone Idea with 122.05 million subscribers, BSNL with 22.29 million subscribers and Intech Online with 0.21 million subscribers.

    The number of wireline subscribers increased from 24.84 million to 25.16 million in April.

    The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,166.93 million to 1,167.82 million. Urban telephone subscription decreased from 647.11 million to 646.99 million. However, rural subscription increased from 519.82 million to 520.82 million.

  • Colors associates with Lakme Fashion Week; to air the event from 1 April

    Mumbai: Colors has announced its association with India‘s premier fashion and trade event, Lakme Fashion Week (LFW).

    Titled ‘Lakme Fashion Week – Colors Ka Jashn‘, the channel will air the event from 1-5 April at the afternoon time-slot of 3 pm.

    Taking fashion to the viewers, this season of Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2013 will have artists from Colors‘ popular shows in a whole new designer avatar.

    The show will be hosted by Rohit Roy.

    Presenting a blend of style and drama a la Colors style, the channel will showcase all the behind the scenes action from the fashion week in a half an hour special episode. Colors‘ artists like Shamim Manan (Bhoomi), Gaurav Chopra (Rathore), newcomers in the Colors family such as Shefali Sharma (Gurbani), Toral Rashputra (Anandi) and Aakansha Singh (Megha) will be seen in a new avatar as they prepare to charm the audiences.

    This special association will see Colors‘ artists interacting with the top notch designers of the country.

    Colors weekday programming head Manisha Sharma said, “Colors has always persevered to bring new and innovative content for our audiences. With this association, we aim to further strengthen our perseverance and bring to them different type of content with a glimpse into the fashion industry. We hope to open doors and diversify to a new set of audiences that are looking for a mixture of fashion and entertainment – fashiontainment.”