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Vodafone Idea Ltd · 532822
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Vodafone Idea Ltd reported Q1 FY27 results with 6.0% YoY revenue growth, 13.5% YoY Cash EBITDA growth, and 10.2% YoY Customer ARPU growth. The company also added 3,000 new unique broadband towers and expanded its 5G footprint to 200 cities.
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18 August 2026
National Stock Exchange of India Limited BSE Limited
“Exchange Plaza”, Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers,
Bandra - Kurla Complex, Dalal Street,
Bandra (E), Mumbai – 400 001
Mumbai – 400 051
Sub: Disclosure under Regulation 30 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure
Requirements) Regulations, 2015 - Transcript of Analyst / Investors Call
Ref: “Vodafone Idea Limited” (IDEA / 532822)
Dear Sir/Madam,
In terms of Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements)
Regulations, 2015, please find enclosed transcript of the Analyst / Investors Call held on
Tuesday, 11 August 2026 relating to the Company’s performance for the first quarter ended
30 June 2026.
The same is also uploaded on Company’s Website: www.myvi.in.
The above is for your information and dissemination to the members.
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
For Vodafone Idea Limited
Pankaj Kapdeo
Company Secretary
Encl: As above
“Vodafone Idea Limited”
Q1 FY27 Results Conference Call
August 11, 2026
MANAGEMENT: MR. ABHIJIT KISHORE – CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER –
VODAFONE IDEA LIMITED
MR. TEJAS MEHTA – CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER –
VODAFONE IDEA LIMITED
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Vodafone Ideal Limited
August 11, 2026
Moderator: Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Q1 FY27 Results Conference Call hosted
by Vodafone Idea. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode and there
will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need
assistance during this conference, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your
touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded.
I now hand the conference over to Mr. Abhijit Kishore from Vodafone Idea. Thank you, and
over to you, Mr. Kishore.
Abhijit Kishore: Thank you, Dorwin.
Good afternoon, and a very warm welcome to all of you. Thank you for making the time to be
here today. On 10th August 2026, our Board of Directors adopted the unaudited results for the
quarter ending June 30, 2026. All the results related documents are available on our website and
I hope you have had a chance to go through the same.
Our robust Q1FY27 operating and financial performance has been an endorsement of our well-
defined strategy and superior execution. Let me share our progress on the key strategic
initiatives. After which, I will handover to Tejas who will share details on the Company’s
financial performance.
I would like to begin by updating you on the 7 critical business parameters that we had mentioned
in the last earnings call as well. I am happy to share that all 7 of these critical business parameters
are now trending positively.
Our revenue improved 6.0% YoY to Rs. 11,689 Crore while Cash EBITDA demonstrated double
digit growth of 13.5% and stood at Rs. 2,475 Crore. We have also increased our subscriber base
to 193.1 million customers vis-à-vis last quarter. Net subscriber addition which turned a corner
in February last quarter has continued its trajectory. We delivered our first quarter of positive
net subscriber additions since merger and we will continue this momentum.
Our churn reduced by 24 bps YoY this quarter. We remain focused to reduce our churn with
the sustained network investment as well as get a competitive share of quality gross additions as
we expand our coverage and enter new geographies.
We also added nearly 3,000 new unique broadband towers during the quarter and over 15,600
new sites over last twelve months, expanding our pan-India 4G coverage to 87.0%. On 5G, we
have made substantial strides by expanding our footprint significantly. I am pleased to share that
our 5G services are now live in over 200 cities across all our 17 circles where we have 5G
spectrum. Our disciplined execution and commitment to deliver a superior network experience
has yielded robust progress despite prevailing geopolitical headwinds impairing the capex
deployment in Q1FY27.
Our Customer ARPU grew from Rs. 177 in Q1FY26 to Rs. 195 in Q1FY27, a growth of 10.2%
YoY; highest in the industry and a sequential improvement of 2.6%.
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August 11, 2026
The Customer ARPU has now been increasing for 20 consecutive quarters. The Customer
ARPU expansion over the last year has been driven primarily by premiumization which is
evident from our improving 4G/5G subscriber mix which stood at 67.4% in Q1FY27 up from
64.4% in Q1FY26 as well as higher data usage by per broadband subscriber.
We closed the quarter with 130.1 million 4G/5G subscribers, up from 127.4 million in Q1FY26.
Our focused execution has also translated into better customer engagement as reflected in the
data usage. The average data usage by a 4G/5G subscriber improved 25.2% YoY to 21.7 GB in
Q1FY27.
Overall, as a result our data usage in Q1FY27 has increased YoY by nearly 28% to 88.4
Petabyte/day from 69.1 Petabyte/day in Q1FY26.
These critical business parameter trends clearly reflect that the customers are getting a better
network experience since we have made sustained investments and continue to remain engaged.
Okay. So just to kind of cover that we've just spoken on all the 7 critical parameters, which is
all moving in the right direction.
Moving on to the funding and its mobilization through capex, on the funding front, we have 2
important updates.
First on the warrants, we have received Rs. 1,183 Crore as part-proceeds from the issue of
warrants to our promoter – Aditya Birla Group.
Second, I am delighted to share that we were assigned Crisil A-/Stable rating by CRISIL in May
2026 followed by a credit rating upgrade to ICRA A- (Stable) by ICRA in June 2026. The
ratings were assigned and upgraded by Crisil and ICRA respectively for certain long-term bank
facilities considering the positive developments over last few months.
I also want to update you on our broader financial architecture that supports our capex plan of
Rs. 45,000 Crore over the next three years. This architecture is built on three cohorts. First, is a
consortium of public sector banks led by SBI with 6-7 participating banks. Second cohort is of
the Indian private banks and the third one is the ECB with Foreign banks.
We remain meaningfully engaged with our lenders across these three cohorts and have made
substantial progress with them.
I am happy to share that we have successfully raised our first tranche of funding of Rs. 6,400
Crore including partial proceeds of Rs. 1,183 Cr from warrants and debt proceeds including non-
fund based facilities through ECB and Indian private banks. We have already placed orders
worth Rs. 9,000 Crore of capex till now which also includes the capex undertaken in Q1FY27
of Rs. 1,930 Crore. The supplies and execution basis these orders have already commenced and
will continue. We are now focused on accelerating network expansion with these fresh orders to
Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and other partners which will be executed as we moved forward.
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August 11, 2026
We are hopeful of closing the discussions with the PSU banks led by SBI as well as continue
work on other debt raise streams.
Next, our differentiated product offerings and market initiatives. Our focus is on enriching
customers' digital lifestyle with experiences that extend well beyond just voice and data.
Towards this, we partnered with Spotify to offer our postpaid Vi Max subscribers a premium
music stream experience.
For Prepaid subscribers, we launched ‘Vi Edu+’, a co-branded Nonstop Hero proposition in
partnership with PhysicsWallah across Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, combining unlimited
connectivity with digital learning benefits for students. We also launched ‘Vi Instadata’
nationally, an emergency data service giving eligible prepaid users 1GB of extra data instantly
when their daily data limit drops below 10MB with 2 days of validity adjusted from their active
pack.
We further strengthened the International Roaming portfolio with the launch of ‘Choose Your
Own Plan’, which offers
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