{"id":973240,"date":"2025-11-12T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973240"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:08:53","slug":"vodafone-ideas-falling-capex-raises-red-flags-on-network-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/12\/vodafone-ideas-falling-capex-raises-red-flags-on-network-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea&#8217;s falling capex raises red flags on network growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Telecom sector experts have raised concerns over Vodafone Idea&#8217;s declining capital expenditure in absence of external funding and the operator&#8217;s ability to strengthen its network to compete with rivals Jio and Bharti Airtel. <\/p>\n<p>During the September quarter, the telco&#8217;s capex fell 28% to \u20b91,750 crore, sharply below analyst expectations of around \u20b92,600 crore, and marked a steep decline from \u20b92,440 crore in the previous quarter, according to reports from UBS, JPMorgan and Axis Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Telecom sector experts have raised concerns over Vodafone Idea&#8217;s declining capital expenditure in absence of external funding and the operator&#8217;s ability to strengthen its network to compete with rivals Jio and Bharti Airtel. During the September quarter, the telco&#8217;s capex fell 28% to \u20b91,750 crore, sharply below analyst expectations of around \u20b92,600 crore, and marked a steep decline from \u20b92,440 crore in the previous quarter, according to reports from UBS, JPMorgan and Axis Capital.<\/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-973240","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\/973240","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=973240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}