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  Airtel discontinues Rs 49 prepaid recharge, hikes entry-level pricing

  Business | July 28, 2021 15:00 IST

  The latest move is significant as telecom operators are focusing on raising average revenue per user (ARPUs).

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  Mobile call, data may become costlier: Airtel says 'won't hesitate to raise prices'

  Business | July 02, 2021 11:37 IST

  Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal said tariffs need to go up amid "tremendous stress" in the telecom sector, and Airtel will not hesitate to raise prices, but it will not do so unilaterally.

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  Soon mobile services may cost you more, Airtel boss recommends relook at internet charges

  Business | August 25, 2020 9:06 IST

  Bharti Airtel founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Monday hinted at an increase in mobile services rates while stating that the average revenue per user is expected to cross Rs 200 in the next six months. He said 16 GB data consumption a month for Rs 160 is a tragedy.

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  AGR-hit Vodafone Idea wants 7-8 times hike in mobile data tariffs

  Business | February 27, 2020 19:12 IST

  Vodafone Idea has demanded fixing minimum tariffs for mobile data at Rs 35 per GB, around 7-8 times of current prices, and for calls at 6 paise per minute along with monthly charges from April 1 to enable it pay statutory dues and make its business sustainable. 

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  Trai moves to fix floor tariffs for mobile call, data

  India | December 17, 2019 18:41 IST

  Telecom regulator Trai on Tuesday initiated a consultation to fix minimum or floor rates for mobile phone calls and data, a move that will effectively end the regime of free calling and dirt cheap data.  

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  After Airtel and Voda-Idea, Reliance Jio announces hike in mobile tariffs

  Business | November 19, 2019 23:49 IST

  Reliance Jio will hike mobile phone call and data charges, the company announced on Tuesday. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio has issued a statement announcing the decision, a day after Vodafone Idea Ltd and Bharti Airtel made public similar plans December onwards.

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  Mobile Tariffs May Fall, TRAI Suggests Zero Termination Charge

  November 01, 2011 18:55 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 1: In a development that would bring mobile telephone tariffs further down, telecom regulator Trai has suggested doing away with termination charges in a phased manner over the next three years. Termination