{"id":990113,"date":"2026-02-06T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990113"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:01:19","slug":"bharti-airtels-q3fy26-profit-falls-55-on-year-on-one-time-labour-code-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/bharti-airtels-q3fy26-profit-falls-55-on-year-on-one-time-labour-code-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel\u2019s Q3FY26 profit falls 55% on-year on one-time labour code provision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s consolidated net profit fell 55% on-year to \u20b96,630.5 crore in the December quarter, dragged by a one-time provision of \u20b9256.8 crore for gratuity and compensated absences under the new labour code effective from November 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from the exceptional provision, India\u2019s second-largest telco\u2019s quarterly net profit stood at \u20b96,920 crore, growing 1.9% sequentially from \u20b96791.6 crore in the previous quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The telco\u2019s consolidated revenue rose 19.6% on-year to \u20b953,982 crore, from a year earlier, driven by continued growth in India and solid performance from Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s consolidated net profit fell 55% on-year to \u20b96,630.5 crore in the December quarter, dragged by a one-time provision of \u20b9256.8 crore for gratuity and compensated absences under the new labour code effective from November 2025. Aside from the exceptional provision, India\u2019s second-largest telco\u2019s quarterly net profit stood at \u20b96,920 crore, growing 1.9% sequentially from \u20b96791.6 crore in the previous quarter. The telco\u2019s consolidated revenue rose 19.6% on-year to \u20b953,982 crore, from a year earlier, driven by continued growth in India and solid performance from Africa.<\/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-990113","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\/990113","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=990113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}