The postpaid user base in India is going to grow pretty fast in the coming years. One of the major drivers behind this would be the narrowing gap between the benefits of prepaid and postpaid plans. It is worth noting that the telcos are currently not increasing the prices of the postpaid plans, instead, they are reducing them in a way. Jio and Airtel both introduced new postpaid plans recently,... Read More
Postpaid subscribers in India are rising every quarter that goes by, but no one is talking about the falling average revenue per user (ARPU) from postpaid services for the telcos. While the Indian telcos are too vocal about the tariff hikes required for prepaid segment customers, they are facing a declining trend of ARPU from postpaid subscribers every quarter. The three major players in the postpaid business in India are... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are two of the top telecom operators in the nation. While Jio is a prominent player in the prepaid space, it is not the same case in the postpaid segment. Airtel and Vodafone Idea lead in the postpaid area, while Jio lags severely. The reason is definitely not the plans offered by the telcos. This is because the benefits offered by Jio's postpaid plans are... Read More
When Jio arrived in the Indian telecom market, it started offering unlimited voice calls and unlimited data to the users with a ton of SMS every day for a very less fixed cost. Jio didn’t start with postpaid plans heavily but only focused on the prepaid segment of the market. The companies that couldn’t adopt the model of Jio had to go out of business, and the companies which remained,... Read More
Bharti Airtel is miles ahead of Reliance Jio when it comes to the postpaid market. It is fair to say that Reliance Jio is quite new to the segment, but its offerings aren’t much different from Airtel’s and were expected to uproot the existing postpaid user base of the telco. However, postpaid customers are generally considered more loyal to their operators, and it has been proved once again. Airtel added... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telco of the country offers users family postpaid plans. The telco offers a total of 3 different family plans to the users. These plans are of Rs 598 (offers 2 connections), Rs 749 (offers 3 connections), and Rs 999 (offers 5 connections). What some users don’t understand after getting a family postpaid plan is how to add their family or friends to it. So today... Read More
We're nearing the end of 2020 and telecom operators are said to be coming out with another tariff hike very soon to sustain in the market. The tariff hike happened to prepaid plans in December 2019 and the consumers are now paying more than 40% compared to the earlier prepaid plans. For less than Rs 500, we used to get 1.5GB data per day and 84 days of validity. However,... Read More
Telecom subscribers in India will soon be able to switch between a prepaid connection to postpaid connection with just an OTP. A new report now says that the old process of switching to a postpaid connection from prepaid will be revised very soon. Right now, customers are required to fill the application form again for switching to postpaid from prepaid, however, it won't be a necessary thing in the future.... Read More
It has been a while since we saw a telecom operator innovating something in the market. Reliance Jio started the trend the 'Triple Play' plans in the industry, but it seems like Bharti Airtel is planning something big to tackle the Mukesh Ambani-led company. Last week, we reported the arrival of 'One Airtel' scheme under which Airtel started providing its Android TV-based Airtel Xstream Box on a refundable security basis.... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) added a substantial number of subscribers in December 2019 as the state-owned telecom service provider did not implement any tariff hike like private telecom operators. A few months back, BSNL’s Rs 998 plan offered 2GB daily data to subscribers for 270 days as a part of a special offering. Currently, BSNL is offering an advance rental option to postpaid subscribers located in Chennai and Tamil... Read More
Vodafone Idea Limited has removed the Rs 649 iPhone Forever Plan which it introduced in February 2019. As the year progresses, we are slowly seeing changes being made to the postpaid segment. A couple of weeks ago, Bharti Airtel removed Netflix subscription benefits which it used to provide with Rs 499 and above postpaid plans. And now, Vodafone Idea has got rid of Rs 649 iPhone Forever plan which is... Read More
Telecom operators in India generate their revenue via postpaid mobile services. A few years ago, even prepaid ARPU was over Rs 200, but the entrance of Reliance Jio changed the entire scenario. According to the data released by Trai in its 'Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators' report for the July-September 2019 quarter, postpaid ARPU of telcos per month dipped to Rs 247 from Rs 253 in the previous quarter. On... Read More
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Thank you Rupesh for good realistic long writing on Vi and BSNL.??
