{"id":1005219,"date":"2026-04-28T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005219"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:36:24","slug":"bharti-airtel-ceo-shashwat-sharma-on-companys-resilience-growth-through-upheavals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/bharti-airtel-ceo-shashwat-sharma-on-companys-resilience-growth-through-upheavals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel CEO Shashwat Sharma on company\u2019s resilience &amp; growth through upheavals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few Indian companies have demonstrated the consistency, resilience, and execution excellence that Bharti Airtel has shown over the past nearly four decades. A global telecom company and India&#8217;s third-largest listed company by market value, Airtel has not only weathered the challenges of India&#8217;s tightly regulated telecom sector but also emerged stronger through successive waves of industry consolidation. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel currently has about 40% market share with industry-leading average revenue per user (ARPU) at \u20b9259 and operations in about 16 countries overseas. Revenue grew at 14% compounded annually between FY22 and FY25 to \u20b91.7 lakh crore. Net profit surged by 99% annually to \u20b933,556 crore during the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few Indian companies have demonstrated the consistency, resilience, and execution excellence that Bharti Airtel has shown over the past nearly four decades. A global telecom company and India&#8217;s third-largest listed company by market value, Airtel has not only weathered the challenges of India&#8217;s tightly regulated telecom sector but also emerged stronger through successive waves of industry consolidation. Airtel currently has about 40% market share with industry-leading average revenue per user (ARPU) at \u20b9259 and operations in about 16 countries overseas. Revenue grew at 14% compounded annually between FY22 and FY25 to \u20b91.7 lakh crore. Net profit surged by 99% annually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005240,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005219\/revisions\/1005240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}