Airtel Africa has reported strong financial and operational performance for the period ended December 31, 2025. The company has also reported that its total customer base growing by 10% to reach 179.4 million users across its African markets.
The telco group says the growth is being driven by a customer-centric strategy focused on network investment, digitisation and new partnerships. These efforts are translating into higher data usage, rising smartphone adoption and rapid expansion of its mobile money ecosystem.
Airtel Africa’s revenues rose to $4.67 billion, representing 24.6% growth in constant currency and 28.3% in reported currency. Profit after tax jumped sharply to $586 million, up from $248 million in the prior period, supported by higher operating profits and foreign exchange gains.
The company also delivered Q3’26 constant-currency revenue growth of 24.7%.
Data is now the largest contributor to Airtel Africa’s revenues. During the period data revenues grew by 36.5%, voice revenues increased by 13.5% and mobile money revenues climbed 29.4%.
Data usage per customer rose to 7.6GB per month. This is up 25.3% year-on-year. Among smartphone users, data consumption hit 9.4GB per month.
The company continues to invest heavily in network expansion, with over 2,000 sites now 5G-enabled across four key markets, alongside ongoing fibre rollout.
East Africa remains a major growth region for Airtel Africa as regional revenue reached $1.6 billion. Data revenues grew 18%, while voice grew 13.7%
Customer growth has been supported by expanded network coverage and a larger distribution footprint.
Airtel Africa’s financial services arm continues to scale fast as mobile Money customers now total 52 million. Annualised transaction value crossed $210 billion and Airtel says it remains on track to list Airtel Money in the first half of 2026
CEO Sunil Tadar noted that Airtel is embedding AI and deeper digitisation across its systems to improve customer experience and better integrate GSM and Airtel Money services.
“Our strategic priorities remain clear: keep investing in best-in-class connectivity, accelerate financial inclusion through our mobile money platform, and deliver a great customer experience,” Tadar said.
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