{"id":972778,"date":"2025-11-10T08:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972778"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:26:57","slug":"vodafone-idea-q2-preview-losses-to-narrow-on-better-arpu-and-cost-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/vodafone-idea-q2-preview-losses-to-narrow-on-better-arpu-and-cost-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea Q2 Preview: Losses to narrow on better ARPU and cost control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) is expected to post another weak quarter for Q2FY26, with muted revenue growth as subscriber erosion continues and 5G-related costs weigh on profitability. According to an average of five brokerages, Vi\u2019s revenue is likely to grow around 2% year-on-year and stay almost flat sequentially, while losses may narrow to around Rs 6,600-7,077 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Kotak Equities expects Vodafone Idea\u2019s revenue to improve 2.1% quarter-on-quarter, driven by a marginal rise in average revenue per user (ARPU), even as subscriber attrition continues. The brokerage models a 1 million decline in end-of-period subscribers to around 196.7 million, while ARPU could increase to Rs 169 per month, aided by tariff adjustments and one extra day in the quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) is expected to post another weak quarter for Q2FY26, with muted revenue growth as subscriber erosion continues and 5G-related costs weigh on profitability. According to an average of five brokerages, Vi\u2019s revenue is likely to grow around 2% year-on-year and stay almost flat sequentially, while losses may narrow to around Rs 6,600-7,077 crore. Kotak Equities expects Vodafone Idea\u2019s revenue to improve 2.1% quarter-on-quarter, driven by a marginal rise in average revenue per user (ARPU), even as subscriber attrition continues. The brokerage models a 1 million decline in end-of-period subscribers to around 196.7 million, while ARPU could increase [&hellip;]<\/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-972778","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\/972778","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=972778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}