Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, November 24, 2018: Reliance Jio emerged as the leading mobile operator with its revenue in the July-September period of 2018 recording highest among all states, a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report said.

It has achieved 38.6 per cent revenue market share in Odisha with gross revenue of Rs 336.98 crore during the quarter followed by Airtel with Rs 333.49 crore gross revenue (38.2 per cent), Vodafone Idea Rs 138.90 crore (15.9 per cent), BSNL Rs 52.4 crore (6 per cent), Tata Teleservices Rs 10.71 crore and RCOM Rs 4.4 crore.

Incidentally, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani during his address at the recent ‘Make In Odisha’ conclave here had mentioned about Jio having the widest 4G network coverage in Odisha covering all towns and over 43,000 villages in the state.

Jio has reached 27.3 per cent revenue market share in Q2 of 2018-19 in the country, whereas Vodafone-Idea remained at 34.4 per cent and Bharti Airtel at 31.7 per cent, as per the TRAI report released Thursday.

As per TRAI mobile subscriber data as on August 31, 2018, Reliance Jio had 68.45 lakh subscribers in Odisha while Airtel had 1.32 crore subscribers, BSNL 55 lakh, Vodafone 46 lakh, Idea 22 lakh, Tata Teleservices 6.89 lakh in the state.