{"id":990334,"date":"2026-02-06T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990334"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:34:18","slug":"airtel-revenue-climbs-20-in-q3-arpu-gap-to-jio-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/airtel-revenue-climbs-20-in-q3-arpu-gap-to-jio-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel revenue climbs 20% in Q3; Arpu gap to Jio rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boosted by premium customer additions, higher customer spending and growth in its home broadband business, Bharti Airtel reported strong revenue and operating performance in the October-December quarter, even as its net profit fell significantly due to one-off factors and an exceptional gain in the year-ago period.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, India\u2019s second-largest telecom operator by market share reported a 55% year-on-year (y-o-y) fall in its net profit to \u20b96,631 crore, about 7% lower than Bloomberg\u2019s estimates. Sequentially, it fell 2.4% in Q3 from \u20b96,791.7 crore in the preceding quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boosted by premium customer additions, higher customer spending and growth in its home broadband business, Bharti Airtel reported strong revenue and operating performance in the October-December quarter, even as its net profit fell significantly due to one-off factors and an exceptional gain in the year-ago period. On Thursday, India\u2019s second-largest telecom operator by market share reported a 55% year-on-year (y-o-y) fall in its net profit to \u20b96,631 crore, about 7% lower than Bloomberg\u2019s estimates. Sequentially, it fell 2.4% in Q3 from \u20b96,791.7 crore in the preceding quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990334","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}