 "Bharti Airtel’s ARPU rises 20%, Reliance Jio’s slips 3% in March quarter")
Bharti Airtel has performed well on the average revenue per user (ARPU) front in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2019, as the figure improved 20 per cent sequentially while Jio’s ARPU declined 3 per cent during the same period.
Airtel’s ARPU in Q3 had fallen 15.50 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 104 from Rs 123 in Q3FY18.
Airtel also recorded a 4.1 per cent jump in domestic wireless revenues, partly by weaning off low revenue customers. It continued to add 4G customers, thereby narrowing the gap with Reliance Jio in terms of revenues from this segment.
However, its slow rate of
