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


Indian private telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) have released their Q2FY26 results. Vodafone Idea was the most recent to announce its earnings, also highlighting its 5G rollouts across 29 cities within its 17 priority circles where it holds 5G spectrum. Let’s take a look at the key performance metrics of the three telcos as of September 30, 2025.
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Data Usage Trends and ARPU

Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel reported an average monthly mobile data consumption of 28.3GB per customer, which translates to roughly 966MB per day. The company also recorded the industry’s highest ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) at Rs 256, close to its short-term target of Rs 300. Airtel’s overall network data volume stood at 24,446 million GBs.
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Reliance Jio
Reliance Jio reported an average monthly mobile data consumption of 38.7GB per customer—slightly over 1.32GB per day. Jio’s ARPU stood at Rs 211.4. The operator reported its overall network data volume at 58.4 billion GBs.
In the Q2FY26 earnings report, Akash M Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, said, “Jio has proudly served over 500 million subscribers addressing multiple digital needs of their everyday life. This has been possible due to Jio’s Deep-Tech initiatives which have sparked India’s technological revolution and have become the backbone of our Prime Minister’s Digital India Mission. Jio will continue to bring new age technologies and enhance the life of every Indian citizen. Jio has successfully delivered its indigenous technology stack at India scale and is now set to take our homegrown technology around the world.”