Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Airtel has reported consolidated mobile data revenue of Rs 2,114 crore, up by 74.3% YoY in India, for the quarter ended December 31, 2014. The company has disclosed that the mobile data revenues now contribute more than 85% of the incremental revenues of the company.
Consolidated revenues for the quarter were at Rs 23,217 crore, up by 5.8% YoY. Net Income was at Rs 1,436 crore, up by 135.4% YoY. India revenues registered a growth of 12.6% Y-o-Y across segments, led by 13.0% in Mobile, 13.2% in Telemedia and 15.8% in Digital TV. Mobile voice realisation in India improved to 37.67p per minute (up 0.45p Y-o-Y).
Other highlights
– Customer base in India as of December 31, 2014 was at 217Mn, up by 9% YoY
– As on December 31, 2014, the company had 217.2 Mn GSM customers as compared to 198.5 Mn in the
corresponding quarter last year, an increase of 9.4%.
– Mobile data connections was at 42.2Mn or about 19.5% of total customers, up from 40.1 Mn connections in previous quarter (up by 5%)
– It reports 3G data customers were at 16.9Mn in the country, up by 10% QoQ and 92% YoY.
– Its 2G data connections were at 25Mn in the country, up from 23Mn in the same quarter last year.
– Total data consumed on the network was at 77.28 billion MB, up by 14% QoQ from 67.67 billion MB, and up by 94% YoY from 39.93 billion MB.
– Data usage per customer also increased from 563MBs in previous quarter to 622MBs in this quarter, up by 10% QoQ and up by 38% YoY from 450MBs in the same quarter last year.
– Data average revenue per user increased from 150MBs from previous quarter to 170MBs in this quarter, up by 13% QoQ and up by 25% YoY from 137MBs in the same quarter last year.