Tariff hike: Vodafone Idea to raise mobile tariff by 10% to 24%, following moves by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel

Vodafone Idea volition revise its mobile work tariffs by astir 10% to 24% aft Jio and Airtel hiked them successful the archetypal week of July. Telecom relation Vodafone Idea (Vi) announces that mobile tariffs volition beryllium raised connected July 4th.

Vodafone Idea has not made immoderate changes successful the different ₹1,799 and ₹3,099 plans with 365-day validity and information packs.

Airtel plans to hike tariffs by 10% to 21% successful prepaid and postpaid mobile plans from July 3. The announcement came a time aft Reliance Jio announced an summation successful tariffs. According to a PTI report, Bharti Airtel has maintained that the mobile Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) needs to beryllium upwards of ₹300 to alteration a financially steadfast concern exemplary for telcos successful India.

Telecom operators accrued tariffs instantly aft the 10th spectrum auction, which ended successful 2 days, aft the industry's lukewarm response.

Jio, India's largest telecom operator, announced a 12% to 27% emergence successful mobile tariffs connected Thursday.

The tariff hikes announced by some Airtel and Vodafone Idea volition outgo much than Jio mobile plans, a PTI study stated

Vodafone and Airtel person raised tariffs successful unlimited dependable plans by astir 11%, revising the rates from ₹179 to ₹199, ₹455 to ₹509, and ₹1,799 to ₹1,999.

In the regular information program category, a 56-day validity program volition outgo ₹579 from ₹479, a 20.8% hike.

Subscribers indispensable walk ₹140 much connected the 84-day validity plans. The 1.5 GB per time program has been raised from ₹719 to ₹859, portion the 2 GB per time program has been raised from ₹839 to ₹979.

The post-paid plans person besides been revised. The idiosyncratic monthly plans person been hiked by ₹50, and the household postpaid plans person been raised by ₹100.

“In enactment with its committedness to supply its consumers with elemental and broad plans, Vi has curated an optimum scope of feature-rich plans to conscionable the divers needs of its consumers. Staying existent to its doctrine of supporting entry-level users and progressively linking higher prices to accrued usage, changes successful entry-level plans are nominal," Vodafone said.

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