January 13th, 2023 7:07 AM 6 COMMENTS

Prepaid Tariff Hikes Can Come Very Soon

India has one of the largest prepaid mobile subscriber bases in the world. Along with that, the data rates are cheapest in the world. The Indian telecom operators have been suffering because of the low prepaid tariffs. It is a general consensus of the industry experts that the prepaid tariff hikes would only be the solution for the telcos to get better returns on their investments. What's strikingly clear now... Read More

January 5th, 2023 6:59 AM 12 COMMENTS

BSNL Implements Indirect Tariff Hike on Three More Plans

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) customers have been wondering when they will get to experience 4G for years now. In the meantime, BSNL has been hiking up the data prices for 3G plans. While BSNL is now very close to launching 4G, it is still going to infuriate customers at some levels to pay more for 3G services. In early December, TelecomTalk reported about the reduction of benefits from an... Read More

January 3rd, 2023 7:25 PM 9 COMMENTS

4G Tariff Hikes to Boost ARPU, 5G Tariffs an Insignificant Play

While the tariff hikes sound bad to consumers, for telcos and their investors, it is a boost to the business. Mobile tariffs in India have been very affordable for consumers compared to what users in other nations have to pay for each GB of data and voice calling services. The last time 4G tariffs were bumped in late 2021, prepaid plans were made around 20-25% more expensive. In December 2019,... Read More

November 28th, 2022 5:21 PM 12 COMMENTS

Prepaid Tariff Hikes Should also Mean Better Quality of Services in India

India is soon going to see prepaid tariff hikes being implemented. Now we have been talking about this for quite a few days since Airtel removed the base Rs 99 plans from two circles. Airtel has softly invited Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) to join its efforts in pushing the industry tariffs forward. Now it just depends on Jio and Vi when they want to go ahead with the tariff... Read More

November 26th, 2022 8:37 AM 42 COMMENTS

Massive Prepaid Tariff Hikes in India Would Remove Scope for Secondary SIMs

India is soon going to witness a massive tariff hike in the prepaid segment. The telcos have mostly gone ahead with tariff hikes around November or December period in the last few years. We are now close to November ending, and Airtel has already implemented a small-scale tariff hike in two circles, namely, Haryana and Odisha, where the Rs 99 plan has been removed as the lowest-recharge plan. Now, the... Read More

November 21st, 2022 12:25 PM 9 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Could Benefit Immensely from Airtel’s Recent Tariff Hike

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in India, is losing customers to its competitors pretty fast. Vi has not been able to compete with Airtel and Jio because of capital issues. The ailing telco has not seen any success in raising funds from external investors yet. What's hurting Vi more is that the tariffs between all the operators are almost the same, and the Indian users are mainly prioritising... Read More

November 21st, 2022 11:15 AM 13 COMMENTS

Airtel Tariff Hike in Haryana and Odisha a Positive Move: ICICI Securities

Bharti Airtel never shied away from Tariff Corrections, which the Industry needs for growth in need of the hour. A report from ICICI Securities now ascertains that Bharti Airtel has embarked on a market-testing tariff in two of its circles - Haryana (B Circle) and Odisha (C Circle). Let's see what ICICI Securities has highlighted in its report. Existing Concerns: ICICI Securities earlier had a concern about the depleting Free... Read More

November 3rd, 2022 11:54 AM 4 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Needs 4G Tariff Hikes to take Revenues to Next Level

Reliance Jio, India's largest telecom operator, released the Q2 Fy23 report a couple of days back. While the analysts expected the telco's average revenue per user (ARPU) figure to cross Rs 180 levels, that didn't happen. The lower the ARPU, the lower will be the overall revenues. With Jio, there's definitely an advantage of scale. But the revenues won't improve much if the scale of customers goes slightly higher and... Read More

October 28th, 2022 9:25 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel and MTN will Have to Reverse the Tariff Hikes

The local branches of Airtel and MTN have been ordered by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to reverse the pricing hikes they implemented last week. Reuben Muoka, director of public affairs for the NCC, said that both carriers had already raised voice and data rates by 10% despite just having received the regulator's temporary clearance. Muoka said in a statement that despite the tariff adjustment being submitted and provisionally accepted... Read More

October 19th, 2022 7:03 AM 11 COMMENTS

5G Tariff Hikes will Not be There, Telcos to Focus on Making 4G Expensive

Everyone knows that 5G tariffs are not going to be too different from the 4G tariffs right now. While 5G has great speed, the telcos won't be able to justify pricing 5G plans at a higher range when there's not even good coverage. That is why, to increase the ARPU (average revenue per user), the telcos would want to hike the price of 4G plans. Indian telcos have often expressed... Read More

September 26th, 2022 5:21 PM 40 COMMENTS

Airtel CEO Reiterated that Industry Tariff Hike is Unfinished: Report

Bharti Airtel Chief Executive Officer, Gopal Vittal is not worried about consumer acceptance of tariff hikes in a rising inflation environment as telecom is an essential service, said JP Morgan in a note read by ET Telecom. Airtel would be looking at tariff hikes to primarily monetise 5G services. The telco wants to increase the average revenue per user (ARPU) figure to Rs 300 in the medium-term. Since telecom services... Read More

August 4th, 2022 3:53 PM 44 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea will Go Ahead with Tariff Hikes by the end of Year

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in the country, will go ahead with tariff hikes by the end of 2022. The telco's current CEO, Ravinder Takkar, who will soon take over as the Chairman of VIL's board, said during the investors' call that the time for a tariff hike is right. In addition to this, Takkar said that 5G plans should definitely be offered at a premium over 4G.... Read More

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