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Airtel profit rises 37% as postpaid additions hit record
Bharti Airtel’s profit after tax rose 37.3% year on year to Rs 8,167 crore in the April-June quarter of FY27, while revenue grew 18.3% to Rs 58,539 crore. The company added 1…
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Bharti Airtel’s profit after tax rose 37.3% year on year to Rs 8,167 crore in the April-June quarter of FY27, while revenue grew 18.3% to Rs 58,539 crore. The company added 1 million postpaid customers, its highest quarterly increase, taking the postpaid base to 30 million, or 8% of its total users.
Brokerages linked the record additions partly to Airtel Fast Lane, a 5G network slicing service for premium postpaid customers. ARPU rose to Rs 264 from Rs 250 a year earlier, while India revenue increased 9.7% to Rs 41,214 crore. Airtel Money, which reported quarterly revenue above $400 million, is preparing for a London listing in the second half of 2026, the Times of India reports.
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The easy story is that premium plans alone revived Airtel’s growth. That overlooks the wider gains in smartphone users, data consumption and India and Africa operations. The opposite claim, that unchanged tariffs make the quarter weak, also misses the rise in ARPU and customer additions. Fast Lane’s value will be tested by postpaid retention and billing, not launch publicity. Can Airtel keep ARPU above Rs 264 before any tariff increase?
Sources (3): telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com, telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com (2)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
