Idea Cellular loses 6.4 million mobile data customers in Q4

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Idea Cellular , India's third largest telecom operator said that it witnessed a sequential quarterly decline of 6.4 million mobile data customers in the fourth quarter at 42.2 million customers, due to the impact of free extended promotions by the new entrant.

The telco said that the mobile data volume elasticity was negated by massive mobile data rate drop of 27.6%, though overall mobile data volume grew by 16.7% (vs Q3FY17) to 127 billion MB (2G+3G+4G). Idea's per subscriber data usage however grew by 36.2% to 957 MB against 703 MB in the previous quarter. Its data ARPU for data subscribers (2G+3G+4G) remained flat in the fourth quarter at Rs. 110 against Rs. 111 in the previos quarter.

The ‘Non Voice Revenue’ (including data) contribution to the ‘overall service revenue’ fell to 24.9% as mobile data revenue contribution declined to 18.3% (vs 20.2% in Q3FY17).

For the quarter ended March 31, India’s No. 3 telco posted a consolidated net loss of Rs 325.6 crore compared with a net profit of Rs 575.6 crore a year ago.


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