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

Telecom operators are now enjoying a slightly better time in the industry as they have increased the prepaid tariff prices by nearly 40%. Bharti Airtel has hiked the prepaid tariffs earlier this month and also simplified its prepaid offerings to the customers. While existing customers of Bharti Airtel continue to enjoy better benefits, new customers of the company also have four recharge options to choose from. Dubbed as Airtel First Recharge plans, they start at Rs 197 and go all the way up to Rs 647, providing a validity of up to 84 days and 1.5GB data per day. Reliance Jio is currently offering its prepaid plans at the same prices to new customers who are joining the network, however, the telco adds an additional Rs 99 charges towards JioPrime membership. There’s no such membership from Airtel, but the telco is charging slightly higher from the first/second recharge users.

Bharti Airtel First Time Recharge of Rs 197
When it comes to the first time recharge portfolio of Bharti Airtel, the new subscribers will have four options to avail. The first of these recharge options would be the Rs 197 prepaid plan. This prepaid plan would be good for the subscribers who do not use much data and would rather stick to calls. The plan offers 2GB data in this price, and along with this, it also ships unlimited calls and 100 SMS per day. Also, the validity of this plan is 28 days. The new customers should make note that they would get the 2GB data for the entire period of 28 days. Notably, the price of this pack used to Rs 179 before the tariff hie.