Airtel Q1 profit rises 37% as higher tariffs lift ARPU to ₹264
Bharti Airtel reported Q1 profit of ₹8,167.4 crore, up 37.3% year-on-year, while revenue grew 18.4% to ₹58,539 crore. Higher tariffs, customer additions and premiumisation lifted India mobile revenue; smartphone data users rose by 2.1 crore year-on-year.
Bharti Airtel reported a 37.3% rise in Q1 profit as higher mobile tariffs, customer additions and premiumisation lifted India mobile revenue. ARPU rose to Rs 264, while the company increased its Airtel Africa stake to over 79%.
Why this matters
The result extends Airtel’s recent pattern of ARPU-led earnings growth, following signals on postpaid and data-user gains and premium mobile and home broadband revenue.
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