Gurugram, Aug 04: Bharti Airtel Limited (“Bharti Airtel” or “the Company”) today announced its audited consolidated results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.
Q1’27 Performance:
During the quarter, we added 14.9 million customers to reach a customer base of 681 million across 15 countries.
Consolidated revenues for the quarter stood at Rs 58,539 crore, up 18.4% YoY and 5.7% QoQ, driven by strong growth in India and Africa. Consolidated EBITDA at Rs 33,599 crore with EBITDA margin of 57.4%.
India revenues for Q1’27 stood at Rs 41,214 crore, representing a growth of 9.7% YoY and 4.2% QoQ.
India Mobile revenue grew 9.2% YoY, supported by strong customer additions and an improvement in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), which increased to Rs 264 in Q1’27 from Rs 250 in Q1’26.
Focus on stronger portfolio led to strong net additions in postpaid segment. We recorded highest ever quarterly postpaid customer additions of 1.0 Mn, thereby reaching a customer base of 30.0 Mn. The smartphone data customer base grew by 21.1 million over the past year, marking a 7.5% YoY increase.
During the quarter, Airtel launched Postpaid Fast Lane - our latest innovation powered by the 5G slicing technology. Our focus at Airtel is on delivering meaningful innovations that enhance our customers' experience.
We expanded our network footprint by deploying 1,579 towers and 14,540 mobile broadband base stations. Over the past year, we rolled out 7,631 additional towers and deployed 45,171 kilometers of fiber, significantly enhancing the reach and resilience of our digital infrastructure.
The Homes segment delivered robust revenue growth of 33.2% YoY, supported by continued expansion of the customer base. During the quarter, we added 473 K customers, taking the total Homes customer base to 14.7 million.
Airtel Business delivered a 12.0% YoY revenue growth, supported by steady growth in connectivity solutions and sustained strong momentum across digital services portfolio.
During the quarter, Airtel announced launch of Airtel Secure Workforce - India’s first, fully-managed and unified Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) security platform with an end-to-end, compliance-ready security stack for enterprises. Powered by Airtel’s pan-India network and 24X7 expert vigilance and with a proven history of national-scale security, Airtel Secure Workforce will offer enterprises the protection they need at optimised costs.
Digital TV generated revenues of Rs 773 crore, serving a total customer base of 16.0 million. Our IPTV services continue to deliver strongly on our convergence agenda.
Africa Business ended the quarter with 189 million customer base and delivered a solid revenue growth of 21.1% YoY in Constant Currency.
In a statement, Gopal Vittal, Executive Vice Chairman, said:
We delivered yet another quarter of strong performance, supported by the resilience of our diversified portfolio and sharp execution across businesses. Consolidated revenue rose 5.7% sequentially to ₹ 58,539 crore with strong growth momentum across India and Africa. India revenue increased 4.2% sequentially while Africa delivered 5.7% constant currency growth. During the quarter, we completed a large and an EPS accretive share swap transaction to increase our stake in Airtel Africa to over 79%. This is a strong reflection of our conviction in Africa’s long-term growth potential and the significant opportunities across our businesses.
India Mobile achieved sequential growth of 3.8%, driven by continued portfolio mix improvement. Our postpaid strategy continues to deliver strong outcomes with highest ever customeradditions of 1 million. We added 5 million smartphone customers with an industry leading ARPU of ₹264 .
The Homes business saw strong momentum with revenue growth of 4.4% QoQ and 473 K customer additions, underpinned by our focus on quality acquisitions and driving convergence.
Airtel Business also delivered 3.2% sequential revenue growth, led by strong performance across the portfolio.
