Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Over the next couple of months, prepaid plans may lose the charm and the entire focus will again shift to the postpaid segment. After the recent tariff hike for prepaid plans, an 84-day plan with 2GB of daily data costs around Rs 700. Postpaid plans from telcos ship with a lot of data, but users will be billed on a monthly basis. For example, the Rs 499 postpaid plan from Bharti Airtel comes with 75GB data along with rollover facility up to 200GB/500GB and unlimited voice calling. The current postpaid plans from Airtel offer a sufficient amount of data and there’s the rollover facility as well. For those who exhaust their allotted data limit, Airtel has two postpaid data add-ons priced at Rs 100 and Rs 200, offering up to 35GB data on top of the existing plan.

Airtel Data Add-Ons for Postpaid Users Start at Rs 100
Bharti Airtel is currently offering just four postpaid plans to the customers- Rs 499, Rs 749, Rs 999 and the Rs 1,599 plan. In some circles, the company has Rs 349 and Rs 399 entry-level postpaid plans. Airtel removed the majority of its postpaid plans a few months ago in a bid to generate more revenue from the users. While the postpaid plans of Bharti Airtel start at Rs 499, the data add-ons are available at a starting price of just Rs 100.
The first data add-on plan from Bharti Airtel costs Rs 100 and it offers 15GB of 2G/3G/4G data, whereas the Rs 200 add-on pack ships with 35GB data. That said, there’s a piece of disappointing news for the users who opt for these add-ons from Airtel. The telco clearly states the data benefit of the add-ons will be limited to the current bill cycle.