{"id":478425,"date":"2022-03-25T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478425"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:43:47","slug":"diesel-price-rise-likely-to-shave-100-bps-off-telcos-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-price-rise-likely-to-shave-100-bps-off-telcos-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel price rise likely to shave 100 bps off telcos&#8217; margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent increase in diesel rates for bulk industrial users is likely to inflate the overall network costs of India&#8217;s top telcos, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi), denting operating margins by around 100 basis points (bps) in the June quarter.<\/p>\n<p>One basis point is 0.01%.<\/p>\n<p>Payouts toward diesel are a key component of a telco&#8217;s overall network costs, which are around 22-24% of sales. Diesel costs form part of a telco&#8217;s energy bill that also includes electricity costs (for grid support) and battery costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent increase in diesel rates for bulk industrial users is likely to inflate the overall network costs of India&#8217;s top telcos, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi), denting operating margins by around 100 basis points (bps) in the June quarter. One basis point is 0.01%. Payouts toward diesel are a key component of a telco&#8217;s overall network costs, which are around 22-24% of sales. Diesel costs form part of a telco&#8217;s energy bill that also includes electricity costs (for grid support) and battery costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}