{"id":1042192,"date":"2026-10-10T08:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042192"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:13:44","slug":"imc-2026-airtel-arpu-will-cross-%e2%82%b9300-very-soon-need-to-upgrade-customers-says-ceo-shashwat-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/10\/imc-2026-airtel-arpu-will-cross-%e2%82%b9300-very-soon-need-to-upgrade-customers-says-ceo-shashwat-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"IMC 2026: Airtel ARPU will cross \u20b9300 very soon, need to upgrade customers, says CEO Shashwat Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel expects its average revenue per user (ARPU) to cross \u20b9300, helped by a surge in the share of postpaid customers to 20% over the long term from about 8% now, chief executive officer and managing director Shashwat Sharma said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe it&#8217;s around the corner&#8230;we can go much beyond \u20b9300 as well,&#8221; Sharma told ET in his first interview since taking charge early this year. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel currently has an industry-leading ARPU of \u20b9264.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel expects its average revenue per user (ARPU) to cross \u20b9300, helped by a surge in the share of postpaid customers to 20% over the long term from about 8% now, chief executive officer and managing director Shashwat Sharma said. &#8220;I believe it&#8217;s around the corner&#8230;we can go much beyond \u20b9300 as well,&#8221; Sharma told ET in his first interview since taking charge early this year. Airtel currently has an industry-leading ARPU of \u20b9264.<\/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-1042192","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\/1042192","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=1042192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042226,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042192\/revisions\/1042226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}