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

Bharti Airtel is one of the top choices of the subscribers in the telecom industry right now. A lot of people prefer Bharti Airtel over other operators given the quality of the network, the services they enjoy and all the benefits which come with having an Airtel connection. This means that the Airtel SIM sits in the primary SIM card slot of a lot of subscribers. But, this also means that a lot of customers might be recharging their SIM with Airtel Smart recharges or the minimum recharge plans to simplu. The minimum recharge plans currently start at Rs 23 for 28 days validity. These plans simply make sure that you continue to enjoy incoming services and that your number stays active enough so that you can receive voice calls, receive SMS and more. But, as per a new announcement by Airtel the amount of minimum recharge that the users do might become twice as much. If you recall the minimum recharge portfolio of Airtel, some of the popular ones are the Rs 23 recharge, Rs 45 recharge and more. The latter is going to be the norm from now on, instead of the Rs 23 one.

Airtel Subscribers to Spend a Minimum of Rs 45 Per Month
Bharti Airtel has issued a public notice in one of the major newspapers where it has noted that the SUK base plan is being discontinued and new customers shall be on a base tariff plan of 2.5p/sec for all Local and STD voice calls, 5p/sec for National Video calls, 50p/MB for data, Re 1 for per local SMS, Rs 1.5 for per STD SMS and Rs 5 per international message. Further, Airtel has mandated that now for the subscribers it is necessary to recharge with a plan of Rs 45 which will extend the validity of their number for them with the respective validity of the plan. In the case of non-recharge, there will be a grace period of 15 days for the subscribers, after the exhaustion of which the services will be suspended for the subscribers.