{"id":1034031,"date":"2026-09-09T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034031"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:17:23","slug":"vodafone-ideas-operating-cash-flows-may-fall-short-of-spectrum-payment-obligations-from-fy29-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/vodafone-ideas-operating-cash-flows-may-fall-short-of-spectrum-payment-obligations-from-fy29-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea\u2019s operating cash flows may fall short of spectrum payment obligations from FY29: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea\u2019s operating cash flows are likely to fall short of the telecom operator\u2019s spectrum payment obligations from FY29, according to a report released by HSBC Global Investment Research recently. <\/p>\n<p>The brokerage said that Vi will need to increase its operating cash flow by nearly three-fold in three years to meet its spectrum payment obligations. However, it estimated the third-largest Indian telecom carrier\u2019s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) to increase by only 15% during FY26 and FY29, helped by a tariff hike in the first quarter of FY27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea\u2019s operating cash flows are likely to fall short of the telecom operator\u2019s spectrum payment obligations from FY29, according to a report released by HSBC Global Investment Research recently. The brokerage said that Vi will need to increase its operating cash flow by nearly three-fold in three years to meet its spectrum payment obligations. However, it estimated the third-largest Indian telecom carrier\u2019s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) to increase by only 15% during FY26 and FY29, helped by a tariff hike in the first quarter of FY27.<\/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-1034031","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\/1034031","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=1034031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034032,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034031\/revisions\/1034032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}