Few days back Bharti Airtel CEO (India and South Asia) Sanjay Kapoor spoke up for the tariff hike and hinted for further tariff hike to make telecom industry sustainable. The tariff will go up following the spectrum auction.

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If you forget Idea already hiked tariff to 2 paisa per second i.e. Rs 1.20 per minute as a second round of tariff hike. Even if the spectrum is refarmed and auctioned at higher price the tariff for voice calls will not go more than Rs 2 per minute.

According to our exclusive sources, in next few days, Govt operator MTNL which operators in Mumbai and Delhi  may increase its prepaid mobile tariff which is currently cheapest in GSM/3G market. MTNL’s current tariff for Voice and Video calls is Half Paisa/ Second on its own network and 1p/Sec on other network calls.

Rock bottom tariffs are of yesterdays, as each and every operator have hiked their tariffs directly or indirectly. But even if the tariff goes to Rs 2/min it is obvious that operators will not withdraw the rate-cutters/power packs which offers call rate at a very low rate, for eg 30p/minute.

Trends in Revising the tariffs:

1. Default tariff is hiked from 1p/sec to 1.5p/sec, even upto 2p/sec. On minute pulse it would be Rs 1.5/minute.

2. Subscribers are pushed to use Rate Cutters which can offer onnet calls at dirt cheap rate, and offnet calls at as low as 30p/minute. Now as customers are habituated to call at low rate, almost everyone will use these rate cutters.