Vodafone Thought (Vi), one of many outstanding telecom firms in India, on Monday, August 10, reported a 6% year-on-year (YoY) progress in its income for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 (Q1 FY27) at ₹11,689 crore. The corporate had posted income of ₹11,023 crore within the corresponding quarter of the earlier fiscal yr.
On a sequential foundation, the determine rose by 3.2%.
EBITDA for the quarter got here in at ₹5,034 crore, a YoY progress of 9.1%, whereas EBITDA margin stood at 43.1% in opposition to 41.8% within the year-ago interval.
Web loss narrowed to ₹3,754 crore as in comparison with ₹6,608 crore logged in Q1 FY26.
ARPU
The corporate mentioned its buyer ARPU elevated to ₹195 in Q1 FY27 from ₹177 in Q1 FY26, a YoY improve of 10.2% – highest within the trade; primarily supported by buyer upgrades.
“Our whole subscriber base stood at 193.1 million in comparison with 192.8 million in Q4FY6 – first quarter of web subscriber addition since merger. We closed the quarter with 130.1 million 4G/5G subscribers, up from 127.4 million in the identical interval final yr. The info utilization improved from 69.1 Pb/Day to 88.4 Pb/Day, a YoY improve of 27.9%,” Vi mentioned.
Different key highlights
Capex for the quarter stood at ₹1,930 crore.
Depreciation & Amortisation bills and Web Finance prices for the quarter had been ₹5,467 crore and ₹4,925 crore, respectively.
Excluding the impression of Ind AS 116, the Depreciation & Amortisation bills and web finance prices for the quarter had been ₹3,862 crore and ₹3,701 crore, respectively. Money EBITDA for
the quarter was ₹2,475 crore.
As of June 30, 2026, the debt from banks stood at ₹211 crore. The money and financial institution stability stood at ₹6,558 crore, aided by the receipt of half proceeds from warrant issuance this quarter.
Crisil assigned a credit standing of Crisil A-/(Secure) in Could 2026, and ICRA upgraded its ranking to ICRA A-/(Secure) in June 2026. The rankings had been assigned and upgraded by Crisil and ICRA, respectively, for sure long-term financial institution amenities contemplating the optimistic developments over the previous couple of months.
“We’ve secured funding of ₹6,400 crore, together with warrants, fund & non-fund primarily based amenities, and stay engaged with lenders to shut the general funding plan. We’ve positioned capex orders value ₹9,000 crore out of our 3-year capex steerage of ₹45,000 crore,” the press launch added.
Operational highlights
Vi mentioned it has expanded its 5G protection to over 200 cities throughout the 17 key circles the place it holds 5G
spectrum.
“Alongside 5G rollout, we proceed to spend money on increasing our high-speed broadband community by including new 4G websites and upgrading our core and transmission community for high-speed broadband community. We added over 15,600 new distinctive broadband towers over the past twelve months; our whole distinctive broadband towers depend now stands at practically 205,000,” it added.
The corporate mentioned its 4G inhabitants protection elevated to 87.0% as of June, 2026. It has introduced 39.4 million incremental inhabitants below the fold of our 4G protection since Q1FY26. “This tempo of community roll-out reinforces our focus in direction of superior buyer expertise by enhanced indoor protection, along with including extra websites to develop our capability,” Vi mentioned.
“With our deliberate investments, the 4G inhabitants protection within the 17 circles is predicted to extend to over 95%,” Vi mentioned additional.
