Bharti Airtel loses nearly 1m mobile customers in Sept

Top Indian telecoms carrier 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 52.7 million during the month, while fourth-ranked Idea Cellular lost 0.51 million mobile customers to 115.5 million, the industry body said.