{"id":989005,"date":"2026-01-31T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989005"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:15:04","slug":"airtel-africa-reports-24-profit-jump-to-210-million-in-december-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/31\/airtel-africa-reports-24-profit-jump-to-210-million-in-december-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Africa reports 24% profit jump to $210 million in December quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Airtel Africa said net profit jumped 24% year-on-year to $210 million in the quarter to December, largely on margin expansion. The company had reported a net profit of $169 million in the year-ago quarter. Revenue rose 33% on-year in reported currency terms to $1,685 million as compared with $1,268 million in the year-ago period. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disciplined execution on cost efficiency, alongside accelerating revenue growth, has enabled another sequential improvement in our quarterly EBITDA margin to 49.6%, underpinning constant currency EBITDA growth of 31%,&#8221; Airtel Africa CEO Sunil Taldar said, adding &#8220;we remain focussed on driving further incremental margin improvements&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Airtel Africa said net profit jumped 24% year-on-year to $210 million in the quarter to December, largely on margin expansion. The company had reported a net profit of $169 million in the year-ago quarter. Revenue rose 33% on-year in reported currency terms to $1,685 million as compared with $1,268 million in the year-ago period. &#8220;Disciplined execution on cost efficiency, alongside accelerating revenue growth, has enabled another sequential improvement in our quarterly EBITDA margin to 49.6%, underpinning constant currency EBITDA growth of 31%,&#8221; Airtel Africa CEO Sunil Taldar said, adding &#8220;we remain focussed on driving further incremental margin improvements&#8221;.<\/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-989005","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\/989005","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=989005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}