{"id":1045143,"date":"2026-10-27T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045143"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:27:00","slug":"airtel-money-reports-25-growth-in-first-half-revenue-in-maiden-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/27\/airtel-money-reports-25-growth-in-first-half-revenue-in-maiden-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Money reports 25% growth in first-half revenue in maiden results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Airtel Money, the African mobile money service that listed in London this month, reported revenue of $830 million for the six months to end-September, up 25.1% from a year earlier in constant currency, in its maiden results on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Profit after tax rose to $228 million from $188 million, primarily reflecting the strong revenue growth over the first-half period.<\/p>\n<p>Customers grew by 18.7% to 56.7 million, driving mobile money penetration of Airtel Africa&#8217;s telco customer base to 42.9%, up 3.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Airtel Money, the African mobile money service that listed in London this month, reported revenue of $830 million for the six months to end-September, up 25.1% from a year earlier in constant currency, in its maiden results on Monday. Profit after tax rose to $228 million from $188 million, primarily reflecting the strong revenue growth over the first-half period. Customers grew by 18.7% to 56.7 million, driving mobile money penetration of Airtel Africa&#8217;s telco customer base to 42.9%, up 3.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045143","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045172,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045143\/revisions\/1045172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}