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Airtel’s struggle to please Street
Mint Kolkata
|February 09, 2026
Bharti Airtel Ltd's consolidated Ebitda for the December quarter (Q3FY26) grew by 4.1% sequentially to ₹30,783 crore.
India's mobile services Ebitda crawled up by 2.2% quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q), but the metric for the Africa mobile business rose at a faster rate of 6.8% in constant currency.
Africa’s user base growth was higher at 3.2% versus India’s 1.2%. Data customer base rose 4.7% in Africa and can accelerate further as this customer base forms 45.6% of the total (79.8% in India).
As the share of data customer base grows, the Africa Arpu (average revenue per user) can get a further boost, given higher data Arpu at $2.70 versus $1.10 for voice. Even in terms of data usage per customer, Africa is at just one-third of India's 30 GB per month, indicating potential to move up. Still, currency devaluation poses a significant risk to the African telecom business of Bharti.
This story is from the February 09, 2026 edition of Mint Kolkata.
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