Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom operator by subscriber said is aiming to increase the share of high ARPU on its network, and grab an increased share of 4G devices, the telco said in its investor presentation.
The telco is also working towards driving rapid data consumption leveraging capacity and is also focusing on the postpaid adoption. Its postpaid base reached 17.7 million at the end of second quarter of the ongoing fiscal, up from 16.4 million in a year earlier period.
Airtel’s 20% customers of the total base were mobile broadband customers at the end of second quarter of the ongoing fiscal, up from 16% in a year earlier period, it said.
The telco, which recently launched its online store to sell smartphones, said that one of the focus areas for the company is to accelerate online as a channel to provide various services.
Under its five-pillar strategy, Airtel is trying to offer more services per users, besides increasing the base with an end-to-end portfolio, including home broadband service. The Sunil Mittal-led telco is accelerating home broadband through rapid expansion and speed upgraded, besides accelerating B2B business growth, and DTH adoption through HD upgrades. These steps are being taken to drive different revenue streams.
The telco’s 33% revenue in the last quarter came from non-mobile business against 29.1% in a year earlier period.
Airtel also added that it is working towards enhancing customer experience under its strategy. The telco said that its focus is also on digitised customer onboarding, customer care and analytics. The telco claimed that it has the lowest churn in the industry at 3.9% at the end of the second quarter.
Under its war on waste strategy, the telco said that it is aiming to accelerate active fiber sharing and joint sourcing of bandwidth, besides optimising network investment and driving zero-based costing.
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Airtel Volte is now live in Nagpur maharashtra.
Good joke, this trick is old now.
If you have any acquaintance in Nagpur ask him. Its true.
Its real bro.
Redmi Note 4?????
Mi max
Here in MP also airtel VoLTE working fine..
Airtel is the only operator running on 2G in my home. Kerala-Alapuzha
LOL 🙂 Airtel is the only operator in Punjab that has every town and village covered with 2G, 3G and 4G.
I should say the same about Idea in MPCG…..But even so, Jio has risen way too fast in comparison with all of these telcos.
It costed 250rs per GB once upon a time!!!!!
VOLTE is live in Hyderabad but only when your phone is on 4G network, if you move to 3G area VOLTE goes away and VOLTE is very patchy right now. Too many server error while making the calls so had to disable the VOLTE.
Keep volte disabled for next 1 year. Untill they stabilize. It will take more time than jio as they lack sub GHz band and their team is not completely focused on 4G like jio.
Why Vodafone want to leave india? They are not like cheap RCOM,AIRCEL, DOCOMO, Telenor. They have premium customer base and 2nd largest operator in India and earning profits as well. So why Vodafone wanna leave india can you clarify?
Vodafone hates competition , they want easy money . Were getting that until last year September.
Now they have to fight out to get hard earn money.
Vodafone is a global company , they will find better growth opportunities in some other countries. Why slug it out in India.
Because declining profit margins and the poor performance of India vis a vis their other country operations have taken a toll. Vodafone is also wary of a negative result of the tax evasion case on them. They were looking for a local partner since very long, so that they can remain in India via backdoor without losing face over alleged corruption via tax evasion.. The merger terms are clearly designed to allow Vodafone a graceful exit if it so desires. Whether that will actually be the case, remains to be seen.
Of course, it was always known that Vodafone will reduce its involvement in India over time. The question is what happens to the brand Vodafone now.
How much it will effect Idea as a brand????? Will merged entity able to fight with Airtel?????? At the moment, Idea is better than Airtel on 3G and 4G front!!!!! Mumbai, Pune, Kerala, Gujarat!!!!!!
Till idea don’t have their own 3g,4g in my city Rajasthan
Vodafone airtel have it
Do you think Vodafone-idea merged entity will keep 3G till 2020?I see Airtel shutting off many 3G sites in Mumbai and Pune, that’s why asking!!!!!
Nikhil I guess on Tuesday we will know after q2 results what idea iz planning for 3G. Idea only recently did a massive 3G expansion in rural areas and economically it would be a waste to stop that so soon. But let’s see.
Thanks!!!!!
How u r sim latches on two network without ICRA??
Is u hv been provided special sim card??
Please clarify doubts.
Yes tri_vis I got a special sim card from Vodafone after I complained some 17 times to their appellate about non existent ZERO network of Vodafone outside cities in MP and CG.
Mostly my Vodafone sim in MP is latching onto idea network but voice quality and POIs are different as often the call that fails from an idea sim will work on Vodafone and vice versa even though both are sharing the BTS/network. I don’t know why that happens though.
VoLTE works only on 4g network.
Yes, I know but some experts were saying it will be working irrespective of 4g or 2g
Lol,as if its upto them,use common sense