{"id":1016774,"date":"2026-06-25T07:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016774"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:28:54","slug":"sp-upgrades-bharti-airtel-to-bbb-on-strong-india-africa-growth-and-debt-reduction-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/25\/sp-upgrades-bharti-airtel-to-bbb-on-strong-india-africa-growth-and-debt-reduction-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"S&P upgrades Bharti Airtel to ‘BBB+’ on strong India, Africa growth and debt reduction prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"

S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday upgraded its long-term issuer credit rating on Bharti Airtel to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’, citing strong earnings growth prospects in India and Africa and the telecom major’s improving balance sheet. <\/p>\n

The global ratings agency said “growing data consumption and a fundamental improvement in Indian and African telco markets will help expand Bharti Airtel’s earnings” and support further deleveraging. <\/p>\n

S&P expects Bharti Airtel’s subscriber base in India to grow by 3%-4% over the next year, with average revenue per user (ARPU) increasing by 5%-7%, driven by higher data usage, premiumisation and subscriber additions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday upgraded its long-term issuer credit rating on Bharti Airtel to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’, citing strong earnings growth prospects in India and Africa and the telecom major’s improving balance sheet. The global ratings agency said “growing data consumption and a fundamental improvement in Indian and African telco markets will help expand Bharti Airtel’s earnings” and support further deleveraging. S&P expects Bharti Airtel’s subscriber base in India to grow by 3%-4% over the next year, with average revenue per user (ARPU) increasing by 5%-7%, driven by higher data usage, premiumisation and subscriber additions.<\/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-1016774","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\/1016774","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=1016774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016796,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016774\/revisions\/1016796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}