Bharti Airtel lost almost 1 million mobile customers in September data released by an industry body showed as carriers in the world's second-biggest wireless services market continue to disconnect inactive users in a clean-up drive.
Bharti's mobile customer base declined 0.98 million to 185.9 million as of September the Cellular Operators Association of India said on Friday.
Second-ranked Vodafone India's mobile customers declined 0.69 million to 152.7 million during the month while fourth-ranked Idea Cellular lost 0.51 million mobile customers to 115.5 million the industry body said.