Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.’s first-quarter profit rose and its average revenue per user touched an all-time high.
The improvement in ARPU—the amount an operator earns per subscriber per month—came on the back of a better mix of subscribers and tariff hikes.
Jio net added 97 lakh subscribers in the quarter ended June. Reliance Jio’s total customer base stood at 41.99 crore as of June compared with 41.02 crore as of March.
It saw a rise in net customers during the quarter on account of SIM card consolidation as low-paying customers continue to drop off on higher plan prices. The telecom operator lost customers in the previous three quarters.
The telecom operator's average data and voice consumption per user per month increased to 20.8 GB and 1,001 minutes, respectively. Total data traffic was 27.2% up at 2,590 crore GB, and total voice traffic rose 17.2% at 1,25,000 crore minutes.
India's telecom operators have focused on increasing tariffs and weeding out low-paying or inactive users to boost average revenue per user. For Jio, past tariff hikes in some of the long-term plans would have come into effect in the April-June quarter.
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