Vodafone Idea ARPU Up by 7.5% QoQ to Rs 124 in Q4 FY22

Vodafone Idea’s Loss Narrows for the Quarter

After taxes, Vi’s loss for the quarter stood at Rs 65,449 million compared to Rs 72,309 million in the previous quarter. The subscriber churn rate during the quarter was 3.4% which is the same as the previous quarter.

This is an area where Vi needs to work. The subscriber churn rate of the telco needs to go down to stop losing subscriber market share to Jio and Airtel. While the subscriber churn rate hasn’t worsened during the quarter, it hasn’t improved either, which is also a sign of worry.

The telco’s VLR subscriber base has also been declining for continuous quarters, which poses a great threat to its overall revenues.

Vi said that its total broadband sites (3G + 4G) went up from 450,330 million to 455,264 million. 4G data users are also consuming more data on average. In Q4 FY22, the average data consumption from the 4G users of Vi was 13.9GB which is more than 12.9GB compared to a year ago.

The subscriber churn rate needs to go down while the ARPU needs to go up fast for the telco to self-sustain in the short-to-medium term.