{"id":1026513,"date":"2026-08-06T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026513"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:57:04","slug":"bharti-airtel-adds-highest-ever-postpaid-users-in-q1fy27-likely-driven-by-fast-lane-analysts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/bharti-airtel-adds-highest-ever-postpaid-users-in-q1fy27-likely-driven-by-fast-lane-analysts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel adds highest-ever postpaid users in Q1FY27, likely driven by Fast Lane: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel\u2019s postpaid subscriber additions in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 were its highest-ever, likely supported by the launch of its 5G network slicing-based service during this period, according to brokerages. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel\u2019s postpaid subscriber base, excluding Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, grew by 1 million quarter-on-quarter in Q1FY27, taking the tally to 30 million. <\/p>\n<p>By comparison, it had added 814,000 postpaid subscribers in Q4FY26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel\u2019s postpaid subscriber additions in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 were its highest-ever, likely supported by the launch of its 5G network slicing-based service during this period, according to brokerages. Airtel\u2019s postpaid subscriber base, excluding Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, grew by 1 million quarter-on-quarter in Q1FY27, taking the tally to 30 million. By comparison, it had added 814,000 postpaid subscribers in Q4FY26.<\/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-1026513","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\/1026513","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=1026513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026514,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026513\/revisions\/1026514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}