{"id":989863,"date":"2026-02-05T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989863"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:24:01","slug":"airtel-q3fy26-preview-revenue-may-rise-18-on-year-arpu-seen-inching-up-to-%e2%82%b9258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/airtel-q3fy26-preview-revenue-may-rise-18-on-year-arpu-seen-inching-up-to-%e2%82%b9258\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Q3FY26 Preview: Revenue may rise 18% on-year; ARPU seen inching up to \u20b9258"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom major Bharti Airtel is expected to report a steady set of numbers for the December quarter, with brokerages pencilling in healthy growth in revenue and a sharp jump in profits, driven by continued ARPU expansion in India, strong traction in the home broadband business and a solid performance from Africa. <\/p>\n<p>According to an average of six brokerages, Airtel&#8217;s consolidated revenue is expected to rise about 18% year-on-year (YoY) in Q3, while adjusted profit after tax is seen growing 35% over the same period. On a sequential basis, most analysts expect low-to-mid single-digit growth, reflecting a stable operating environment rather than any one-off trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom major Bharti Airtel is expected to report a steady set of numbers for the December quarter, with brokerages pencilling in healthy growth in revenue and a sharp jump in profits, driven by continued ARPU expansion in India, strong traction in the home broadband business and a solid performance from Africa. According to an average of six brokerages, Airtel&#8217;s consolidated revenue is expected to rise about 18% year-on-year (YoY) in Q3, while adjusted profit after tax is seen growing 35% over the same period. On a sequential basis, most analysts expect low-to-mid single-digit growth, reflecting a stable operating environment rather [&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-989863","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\/989863","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=989863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}