Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third largest telecom operator in India, is in desperate need of tariff hikes. While the telco is currently in the process of raising funds through a follow-up offer to the public, its finances are in jeopardy. Its current level of revenues is not enough to handle the payments that the government will start demanding once the moratorium period ends in FY26. Also Read: Vodafone Idea Raises... Read More
The Indian telecom sector is struggling with cashflows due to low tariffs. For telcos such as Vodafone Idea (Vi), the current situation is even worse because, at the current tariff levels, their average revenue per user (ARPU) won't see any meaningful growth. Amongst the private telcos, Vi's ARPU is the lowest even though its tariffs are at the same level as Airtel's. While the telcos were expected to raise tariffs... Read More
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
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
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
When it comes to the Indian market, things are pretty clear as to what the operators want to do next and how the tariffs will change in the future. But until now, one thing that the private operators in the country, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have ensured is that Indians keep getting data at one of the cheapest rates globally. While the data price has increased... Read More
5G launch in India is just a matter of a few months now. We might get to see live 5G networks in multiple cities of India by the end of 2022. At the same time, one should remember that 4G tariff hikes are nearby too. Back in November 2022, every telco had announced a prepaid tariff hike. This tariff hike for the prepaid plans came after a two year period.... Read More
The debt levels of the Indian telecom industry are expected to go up with the upcoming spectrum auction. While the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested a price cut for multiple spectrum bands, participation in the auction would mean an elevated debt level for the telecom industry. Ankit Jain, Assistant Vice President & Sector Head, ICRA said even modest participation in this auction would mean the debt levels... Read More
The telecom industry in India is expected to witness strong revenue growth in the financial year 2023. The industry will witness revenue growth on the back of increased tariff charges as well as a sturdy rise in data usage in the country. The sector has been quite adversely affected by the debt due to factors such as the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) case verdict which created massive liabilities for the... Read More
Much recently, the private telecom operators announced prepaid tariff hikes. In just a span of a week, all of the operators had implemented the new prices to their offerings. But the surprising thing was, the telcos had only moved ahead with the prepaid tariff hikes. The prices of the postpaid plans, at the time of writing this, are untouched! But that shouldn’t be the case for too long. According to... Read More
The recent hike in prices of the prepaid plans by the telecom companies has been the highlight for more than a week. Now, as events unfold, it is being reported that Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are expected to witness an additional $1 billion increase (around Rs 7,500 crores) in each of their Free Cash Flow (FCF) annually. According to an ET Telecom report citing Goldman Sachs, this rise in... Read More
As expected, Vodafone Idea has followed Airtel in increasing tariffs of prepaid plans. The new tariffs are very similar to that of Airtel and will come into effect from November 25, 2021. Vi has also moved its base plan from Rs 79 to Rs 99 for the users, and the benefits are the same as Airtel’s plans. This move from the telco is in line with its comments on focusing... Read More
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