{"id":1007390,"date":"2026-05-11T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007390"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:22:53","slug":"airtel-africa-fy26-profit-surges-to-813-million-revenue-rises-29-5-on-strong-data-mobile-money-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/airtel-africa-fy26-profit-surges-to-813-million-revenue-rises-29-5-on-strong-data-mobile-money-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Africa FY26 profit surges to $813 million, revenue rises 29.5% on strong data, mobile money growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Airtel Africa on Friday reported a strong financial and operational performance for the year ended March 31, 2026, with reported revenue rising 29.5% year-on-year to $6.41 billion, driven by growth in data and mobile money services across its markets in sub-Saharan Africa. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s profit after tax jumped 147.4% to $813 million during FY26, compared to $328 million in the previous year. Basic earnings per share stood at 18.6 cents against 6 cents a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Airtel Africa on Friday reported a strong financial and operational performance for the year ended March 31, 2026, with reported revenue rising 29.5% year-on-year to $6.41 billion, driven by growth in data and mobile money services across its markets in sub-Saharan Africa. The company&#8217;s profit after tax jumped 147.4% to $813 million during FY26, compared to $328 million in the previous year. Basic earnings per share stood at 18.6 cents against 6 cents a year ago.<\/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-1007390","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\/1007390","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=1007390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007402,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007390\/revisions\/1007402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}