Airtel Africa Plc (AAF) Q1 2027 Earnings Call

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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Airtel Africa Q1 twenty twenty seven Results. All participants will be in listen only mode. There will be an opportunity to ask questions later during the call. Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to Sunil Tildare. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you very much, and a very good afternoon, good morning to everyone, and welcome, welcome to the call. Thank you all for joining, us on the call today. I'm joined on the line by Kamal Dua, our CFO, and Alistair Jones, our Head of Investor Relations. We will shortly be answering your questions. But first, I would like to provide you with a brief overview of the quarter's performance. I'm very pleased to report another strong quarterly performance, which reflects the continued underlying demand across our business and the sustained focus in execution enabling us to capture the opportunity. Into this performance has been our focus on providing a best in class customer experience and the results reflects the benefits of our long term investment strategy, which continues to deliver value to all our stakeholders. We delivered strong growth across voice, data, and mobile money, supported by an acceleration in the customer base growth across all segments as adoption of digital and financial services continues to gather momentum. At the same time, we have accelerated investment in our network to strengthen coverage and capacity, ensuring we remain well positioned to capture the significant growth opportunities across all of our markets. Group revenues reached $1,850,000,000, growing by over 21% in constant currency despite no no longer benefiting from the Nigerian tariff adjustments, which underscores the breadth of growth opportunit...