Airtel Africa has reported a 375.3% year-on-year (YoY) increase in its Profit After Tax (PAT) to $376 million for the first half of 2025, ending 20 September 2025. This is according to the financial statement released by the company on Tuesday.
The group noted that the growth is attributed to a growing customer base and confidence in its strategies. It highlighted recent innovations such as the Airtel Spam alert and the ability to maximise its revenue generation, and the expansion of digital offerings, driving myAirtel app uptake.
Airtel now boasts a 173.8 million customer base across its 14 African markets, an 11% increase compared to 12 months ago, when it had 156.6 million. Airtel Africa’s data subscribers also witnessed an 18.4% increase from 66 million to 78.1 million, signalling continued smartphone penetration and data usage.
Reacting to the report, Airtel Africa’s Chief Executive Officer, Sunil Taldar, explained that the increase in smartphone penetration to 46.8% reflects the dedication to developing Africa’s digital economy. He said the substantial demand for data services across its markets shows the need to build additional capacity to facilitate the rise in both digital and financial inclusion.
“Our strategy has been focused on providing a superior customer experience, and the strength of these results is a testament to the initiatives that we have been implementing across the business. Digital innovation is a core focus, and we’re pleased to see the growing adoption of the MyAirtel app as we seek to deepen customer engagement and simplify the customer journey,” he added.
During the half-year ended September 2025, Airtel Africa saw a revenue of $2.982 billion, representing a 24.5% increase in constant currency and 25.8% in reported currency.
Airtel Africa said the constant currency revenue growth reflects the consistent execution of its strategy, supported by tariff adjustments in Nigeria and continued strong growth momentum in Francophone Africa.
Across its 14 African markets, Airtel’s mobile services revenue grew by 23.1% in constant currency, recording a $2.495 billion revenue. This is further driven by a voice revenue growth of 13.2% and data revenue growth of 37.0%.
Explicitly, Airtel Africa recorded $1.161 billion in revenue from $844 million to surpass voice ($1.1 billion from $960 million) as the biggest component of revenue for the group.
Mobile money revenues continue to benefit from its increased scale and higher levels of engagement to deliver a 30.2% growth in constant currency. From the $623 million revenue, wallet recorded $299 million, payment and transfers saw $262 million and financial services of $22 million.
Other revenue under Airtel Africa’s mobile money contributed $35 million in revenue.
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Airtel Nigeria
In Nigeria, Airtel’s biggest market in terms of subscribers, recorded a $699 million revenue during the half year ending September 30, 2025. This represented a 46.5% YoY increase based on the reported currency change.
Airtel Nigeria recorded a 9.9% increase in total customer base from 48.7 million in September 2024 to 53.6 million in September 2025. The number makes Airtel Nigeria the second-largest mobile network operator in Nigeria by subscribers, only behind MTN Nigeria.
Airtel Nigeria’s voice revenue grew by 34.7% in constant currency to $268 million, driven by voice average revenue per user (ARPU) growth of 25.7%. Data revenue grew by 62.4% to $357 million from $229 million, fueled by the surge in data customers and data ARPU growth of 12.2% and 46.6%, respectively.
Meanwhile, Airtel’s mobile money performance in Nigeria is still crawling. Airtel Nigeria reported a 46.1% YoY increase in mobile money customer base from 1.4 million to 2 million. This is still low compared to 38.9 million in its East African region and 8.9 million in Francophone Africa.
East Africa
East Africa revenue grew by 18.5% in reported currency to $1.047 billion and by 15.6% in constant currency. Airtel Africa noted that higher reported currency revenue growth, as compared to constant currency, was primarily due to Ugandan shilling and Zambian kwacha appreciation.
Airtel’s East African region (Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) saw a 10.8% YoY increase in customer base to 82.3 million. Also, the data customer base surged by 19% from 28.8 million to 34.3 million.
Voice revenues during the period under review were $518 million (14.6% increase), while data revenue increased by 19.6% to $434 million.
Data usage per customer increased to 7.3 GB per customer per month, up by 25.0%, with smartphone penetration increasing 3.5% to reach 43.7%. Smartphone data usage per customer reached 9.0 GB per month compared to 7.4 GB per month in the prior period.
Mobile money revenue grew by 29.7% YoY in constant currency to $466 million and a customer base of 38.9 million from 33 million.
Francophone Africa
Airtel Africa’s francophone market recorded $749 million in revenue, a 17.7% and 14.5% YoY growth in reported currency and constant currency, respectively. The market comprises Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Madagascar, Niger, Republic of the Congo and the Seychelles.
Francophone Africa’s subscribers grew by 12.8% to 38 million, while data users surged by 32.5% to 14.3 million. Meanwhile, voice revenue declined by 2.7% in constant currency and increased by 0.8% in reported currency to $316 million.
Data revenue grew by 39.0% in constant currency to $370 million, supported by customer base growth of 31.5%. Data usage per customer increased to 6.4 GB per month (up from 5.1GB in the prior period), with smartphone penetration increasing 4.1% to reach 44.9%. Smartphone data usage per customer also reached 7.6 GB per month compared to 6.2 GB per month a year ago.
Mobile money revenue grew by 29.8% YoY in constant currency to $153 million and a customer base of 8.9 million from 7.1 million.
