{"id":977100,"date":"2025-11-28T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977100"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:49:07","slug":"bharti-airtels-home-broadband-data-centre-5g-spends-may-drive-up-fy27-capex-jp-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/28\/bharti-airtels-home-broadband-data-centre-5g-spends-may-drive-up-fy27-capex-jp-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel\u2019s home broadband, data centre, 5G spends may drive up FY27 capex: JP Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel\u2019s ambitious and aggressive expansion plans in home broadband, data centres, and wireless fifth-generation (5G) services may start a fresh capital expenditure (capex) cycle for India\u2019s second-largest telecom operator from fiscal year 2027, and impact its free cash flow (FCF) generation, according to JP Morgan. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel&#8217;s capex had a hit a peak in Q1FY24, but has been moderating for the last eight quarters, driven by a reduction in 5G spends. This had led analysts to estimate that the telco\u2019s capex may further moderate in FY26 and FY27, sharply lifting its FCF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel\u2019s ambitious and aggressive expansion plans in home broadband, data centres, and wireless fifth-generation (5G) services may start a fresh capital expenditure (capex) cycle for India\u2019s second-largest telecom operator from fiscal year 2027, and impact its free cash flow (FCF) generation, according to JP Morgan. Airtel&#8217;s capex had a hit a peak in Q1FY24, but has been moderating for the last eight quarters, driven by a reduction in 5G spends. This had led analysts to estimate that the telco\u2019s capex may further moderate in FY26 and FY27, sharply lifting its FCF.<\/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-977100","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\/977100","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=977100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}