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Vi loss narrows to ₹6.6K cr; Arpu up 1.1% to ₹177 in Q1
Financial Express Kochi
|August 15, 2025
VODAFONE IDEA on Thursday said its net loss shrank sequentially in the June quarter to ₹6,608 crore on rising revenues and falling finance costs.
The numbers were better than Street estimates of ₹6,853 crore loss. The loss for Q4FY25 was ₹7,166 crore.
Revenue for the quarter came in at ₹11,023 crore, a 0.1% sequential growth, missing Bloomberg estimate of ₹11,153 crore.
The customer base of the cash-strapped telco shrank further to 197.7 million from 198.2 million in the March 2025 quarter, though blended churn was flat sequentially at 4.1%. Average revenue per user (not including enterprise customers) continued to rise sequentially at ₹177, 1.1% higher than the preceding quarter's Arpu of ₹175.
This story is from the August 15, 2025 edition of Financial Express Kochi.
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