Airtel partners with IRSOC to provide cybersecurity for Indian Railways, protecting IT infrastructure, ticketing, train management, and digital operations. Focus on safety, AI, and uninterrupted service.
Jio, Airtel & Vi's tariff hikes impacting ARPU and price-sensitive users. Experts predict further increases and potential shift to postpaid plans. Analysis of the telecom landscape.
Airtel's ARPU is projected to rise, driven by tariff hikes, while capex declines boost FCF. Jio's ARPU growth is expected to be slower. Market share gains are also anticipated for Airtel.
Jio leads in wireless subscribers, adding over twice as many as Airtel in June. Overall wireless subscribers increased to 1163 million. 5G FWA users rose to 7.85 million. Vi & BSNL lost ground.
Airtel partners with Perplexity to offer free Perplexity Pro subscriptions to its mobile, Wi-Fi, and DTH users. This gives 360 million Airtel customers access to advanced AI tools and enhanced search capabilities.
Vi continues to lose subscribers despite expanding 4G/5G coverage, while Jio and Airtel gain. Jio leads in 5G FWA with significant market share and ARPU. TRAI data shows Jio gaining overall users.
Airtel added 4.7M active users in January, while Jio remained flat. Vi lost 0.7M, highlighting its financial challenges. Airtel's M2M market leadership strengthened. Active users growth
India's leading telcos face a 5G capex downturn due to lacking use cases and delayed monetization. Airtel & Jio focus on revenue and FWA. Vi's 5G rollout hinges on debt raise. 5G investments normalisation impacts Ericsson.
This complements our existing network strength of 400,000 Rkms across 50 countries," Sinha said, adding that the move underlines Bharti Airtel's commitment to address Digital India's growing demand for global connectivity and data with additional routes, diversity and capacity.
Bharti Airtel’s annual capital expenditure will fall sharply in FY25 and FY26 compared with the record Rs 33,000 crore seen in FY24, as the nation’s second-largest telco has concluded its 5G rollout and won’t be spending extra cash on 4G capacity expansion going forward, its vice-chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said.
In a statement released alongside its third quarter earnings results, the company noted that tariff revisions are crucial to sustaining growth in the sector and supporting future infrastructure investments.
Lately, Airtel’s Africa unit has been seeing strong business resurgence and is expected to pull ahead of rival telcos operating in the African continent, including MTN, Vodacom and Orange, by recording the highest revenue growth in 2025, say analysts and industry experts.
“Our focus on speed and quality execution is enabling us to unlock substantial opportunities for growth across our markets and business segments, where demand remains significant, resulting in a further acceleration of constant currency revenue growth in the most recent quarter,” Airtel Africa CEO Sunil Taldar said in an official statement.
