Bharti Airtel (Airtel) has announced its consolidated financial results for the third quarter (Q3) ended December 31, 2025. The company’s total revenue increased to Rs 539.82 billion in Q3 2025-26 from Rs 451.29 billion in Q3 2024-25, a 19.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase. The growth was driven by strong momentum in both India and Africa. As per the company, India’s revenues for Q3 2025-26 reached Rs 392.26 billion, reflecting a YoY growth of 13.2 per cent and quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth of 1.4 per cent. Meanwhile, mobile revenue registered a 9.1 per cent YoY growth, driven by higher realisations and an expanding customer base. The company delivered an average revenue per user (ARPU) for the quarter at Rs 259, up from Rs 245 in Q3 2024-25.
Further, company’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased 25.2 per cent YoY to Rs 311.44 billion in Q3 2025-26. The telco’s EBIT increased to Rs 176.54 billion from Rs 131.26 billion in the reported period. Furthermore, the profit before tax rose by 34.4 per cent to Rs 125.58 billion in Q3 2025-26 while net income (before exceptional items) increased to Rs 69.20 billion from Rs 55.14 billion in the reported period.
Commenting on the results, executive vice-chairman, Bharti Airtel, said, “Our strategy of a diversified and resilient portfolio. India revenue including passive infrastructure services increased by 1.4 per cent sequentially. Africa delivered yet another quarter of exceptional performance with constant currency revenue growth of 5.8 per cent. One of the reasons for our stepped up performance in Africa is the deployment of our home grown digital stack that has sharpened our go to market excellence, the secret sauce of Airtel. India mobile recorded sequential growth of 1.9 per cent, driven by our focus on winning with quality customers and a consistently improving portfolio mix. We added 4.4 million customers with an industry-leading ARPU of Rs 259.
The Homes business maintained strong growth momentum, crossing a quarterly revenue run-rate of Rs 20 billion. We added 1.2 million customers, our highest ever quarterly additions.
Our IPTV offering continues to see acceleration in net additions, strengthening our convergence strategy. Airtel Business recorded a revenue growth of 1.5 per cent sequentially. Our digital services portfolio is seeing solid growth momentum supported by Airtel Cloud, cybersecurity, financial services, and internet of thing (IoT). Our balance sheet strength, reinforced by strong cash generation and sustained deleveraging, positions us well to invest in new growth opportunities.”
