Nigeria, Jan. 31 -- Wireless operator Airtel Africa more than doubled its post-tax profit for the nine months to December 2025 to $586 million in reported currency on the back of a sizeable increase in data revenue, according to its unaudited earnings report out on Friday.

The mobile service provider, which operates in fourteen countries across sub-Saharan Africa, expanded turnover by 28.3 per cent to $4.7 billion, with all income sources including voice revenue, data revenue and listing revenue recording growth.

The fairly remarkable revenue performance was driven by currency appreciation in key markets, particularly Nigerian naira, Zambian kwacha, Ugandan and Tanzanian shilling and West African CFA franc.

Airtel Africa, based in the ...