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

Bharti Airtel introduced the minimum recharge scheme back in October 2018. As part of the scheme, Airtel is making mandatory to every subscriber to recharge a valid prepaid pack to get service validity. For the unaware, service validity allows prepaid subscribers to either receive incoming or make outgoing calls or doing any other activity on their prepaid SIM card. At the same time, the telco has introduced ‘Minimum Recharge Plans‘ or ‘Smart Recharge Plans‘ to avoid subscribers disconnecting their SIM card. These Smart Recharge plans come in extremely handy to the users who are not willing to spend at least Rs 149 on an unlimited combo plan from Airtel. Since the tariff revision in December 2019, Airtel is offering three minimum recharge plans to prepaid users at a starting price of just Rs 45. Continue reading to know more about the same minimum recharge plans in detail.

Airtel Minimum Recharge or Smart Recharge Plans Detailed
Unlike Vodafone which is flooding the market with a lot of minimum recharge plans, Bharti Airtel has just three of them. The plans in question are Rs 45, Rs 49 and Rs 79. Starting with the Rs 45 Smart Recharge pack, it is the most basic one with no talk time or data benefit. Instead, the Rs 45 recharge offers a user 28 days of service validity and all the voice calls will be charged at 2.5 paise per second.
As for text messages, they will be charged at Re 1 for local and Rs 1.5 for STD.