Archive · 11 Aug 2026

Vodafone Idea Advances ₹45,000 Crore Capex Plan, Lender Talks Progress

Vodafone Idea Advances ₹45,000 Crore Capex Plan, Lender Talks Progress

Vodafone Idea is a company that provides mobile phone and internet service to people in India.

It wants to make its network better and faster so that more people can use phones and the internet.

To do this, it needs a huge amount of money — ₹45,000 crore — and it is talking to banks about how to get it.

The talks with banks are going well, and the company has already received some money to start working.

Vodafone Idea has ordered special equipment from big technology companies like Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung to build new towers.

These towers will help bring fast 4G internet to more places and 5G internet to more cities.

The company is adding about 3,500 new 4G sites every month.

It recently gained new customers for the first time in years — now about 193.1 million people use its service.

Vodafone Idea wants to bring 5G to more than 200 additional cities in the coming months.

It is doing all of this to compete better with other phone companies in India and give customers better service.

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