New Delhi: Operator Telecom Bharti Airtel can lead in Hiking Mobile Call and Services this year’s rate because it seems to increase the average income per user of up to ₹ 200, the company’s top officials.
Airtel is the first telecommunication player to raise cellular service rates in the range of 18-25 percent in November 2021.
The average income per user (ARPU), the indicator of the TELCO profitability, from Airtel is on ₹ 163 in October-December 2021, down 2.2 percent year-to-year.
“I hope the tariff increase in 2022. I don’t think it will happen in the next 3-4 months because the consolidation of SIM and growth needs to be back but I expect a round of other tariff increases. Of course, it must be determined by the dynamics of competitors. We will not Hesitate to lead as we have done in the past recently, “said Bharti Airtel MD and CEO for India and South Asia Gopal Vittal.
He responded to analysts’ questions during the company’s revenue call.
Bharti Airtel on Tuesday reported a 2.8 percent decline in its consolidated net profit to ₹ 830 crore in the third quarter which ended December 31, 2021, compared to ₹ 854 crore in the same period last year.
Bharti Airtel consolidated income increased 12.6 percent to ₹ 29,867 crore during the quarter reported from ₹ 26,518 crore in the December 2020 quarter.
“We hope that Apru from the industry, our Apru immediately reached ₹ 200, then in 2022 it itself was roughly quiet after in the next few years to ₹ 300 which was a simple and good level of ARPU which could then return capital of 15 percent , “Vittal said.
Bharti Airtel 4G customers in India grew by 18.1 percent Y-O-Y to 19.5 crores in the December 2021 quarter of 16.56 crores in December 2020 Quarter.
The use of data per customer in the Indian Airtel Bharti network in India grew 11.7 percent to 18.28 gigabytes from 16.37 GB a year ago.
Mr Vittal said that the company will use USD 300 million (around ₹ 2,250 crore) to support the increase in devices, networks and business cloud. One large lever is an upgrade device, both networks and the third is Cloud.
“Great opportunities for us are increasing from cellphone features to smartphones. We have developed some abilities. The software feature will allow us to quickly lock the cellphone if EMI is not paid. There is a platform that we do to really lend to the device to reduce the device The device unit, “Vittal said.
He said that software can allow companies to offer money back and targeted discounts.
“We will be aggressive on improving driving. At the same time we will do it wisely. Getting the type of game subsidies is not a good idea on the market like India, actually in any market. We see a significant increase in Arpu when people move from features to smartphones .
“In the long run, this upgrade is very important. As a consequence, we will use this corpus (Google) and our ability to encourage this increase.” Vittal said.