Mumbai: Vodafone India reported an operating profit of Rs 6,534 crore in the six months through September, up 6.3% year-on-year, making it the second largest income and profit centres for the British telecom major globally. Vodafone, the single largest foreign investor in the country pumping in Rs 1.11 lakh crore since its entry in February 2007, has reported an 11.2% rise in total revenue at Rs 22,902 crore, MD and CEO Sunil Sood said here.
The second largest mobile operator with over 188 million users, which is looking at “going public at the earliest when the time is conducive,” attributed the healthy earnings “to rise in data revenue that jumped 60% to Rs 3,979 crore which is 18.9% of the total revenue, and customer additions, especially the 3G and 4G ones, and stable ARPU (average revenue per user) which rose to Rs 204.”
