{"id":973192,"date":"2025-11-11T17:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973192"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:40:52","slug":"vodafone-idea-shares-jump-3-after-q2-loss-narrows-arpu-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/11\/vodafone-idea-shares-jump-3-after-q2-loss-narrows-arpu-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea shares jump 3% after Q2 loss narrows, ARPU grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea shares jumped 2.62% to their intraday high of \u20b99.76 on the BSE in early trade on Tuesday, November 11, after the telecom operator reported a narrowing of its consolidated net loss for the September quarter of FY26. The net loss reduced to \u20b95,524 crore, compared to \u20b97,176 crore in the same quarter a year earlier. The company attributed the loss to its owners.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Idea reported a rise in its customer Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) as well. The ARPU (excluding M2M users) grew to \u20b9180 in Q2FY26, compared to \u20b9166 in Q2FY25. This marks an 8.7% year-on-year increase.<\/p>\n<p>The company also posted a 2.4% year-on-year increase in revenue from operations. Revenue stood at \u20b911,194 crore in Q2FY26, up from \u20b910,932 crore in the same period last year. <\/p>\n<p>Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortisation (EBITDA) for the quarter stood at \u20b94,685 crore, up from \u20b94,550 crore reported in Q2FY25. The EBITDA margin for the period was recorded at 41.9%, compared to 41.6% in the year-ago period, representing a 30 basis points increase. <\/p>\n<p>Cash EBITDA (pre-IndAS 116) came in at \u20b92,246 crore in Q2FY26, down from \u20b92,324 crore in Q2FY25.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of network and subscriber base, the company reported a 4G\/5G subscriber base of 127.8 million, compared to 125.9 million in Q2FY25. The company stated that its 4G network now covers 84.4% of the population. Additionally, 4G data capacity grew by 38% and 4G data speeds increased by 17% versus March 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea shares jumped 2.62% to their intraday high of \u20b99.76 on the BSE in early trade on Tuesday, November 11, after the telecom operator reported a narrowing of its consolidated net loss for the September quarter of FY26. The net loss reduced to \u20b95,524 crore, compared to \u20b97,176 crore in the same quarter a year earlier. The company attributed the loss to its owners. Vodafone Idea reported a rise in its customer Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) as well. The ARPU (excluding M2M users) grew to \u20b9180 in Q2FY26, compared to \u20b9166 in Q2FY25. This marks an 8.7% year-on-year [&hellip;]<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973192","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=973192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}