{"id":1007958,"date":"2026-05-14T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007958"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:05:54","slug":"bharti-airtel-q4-profit-misses-estimates-reports-first-arpu-dip-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/14\/bharti-airtel-q4-profit-misses-estimates-reports-first-arpu-dip-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel Q4 profit misses estimates, reports first Arpu dip in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel reported a 33.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) fall in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday due to one-time items and a high base effect, even as revenue growth remained steady despite a rare sequential dip in average revenue per user (Arpu).<\/p>\n<p>Arpu slipped for the first time in five years to \u20b9257 per month from \u20b9259 in the preceding quarter, reflecting slowing monetization momentum amid the absence of tariff hikes. On a yearly basis, however, Arpu rose 4.9%, aided by premium users and subscriber additions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel reported a 33.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) fall in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday due to one-time items and a high base effect, even as revenue growth remained steady despite a rare sequential dip in average revenue per user (Arpu). Arpu slipped for the first time in five years to \u20b9257 per month from \u20b9259 in the preceding quarter, reflecting slowing monetization momentum amid the absence of tariff hikes. On a yearly basis, however, Arpu rose 4.9%, aided by premium users and subscriber additions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007958","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007959,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007958\/revisions\/1007959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}