Telcos to put tariff hikes on speed dial

Consumers should now get ready to pay higher phone bills at frequent intervals with the telecom operators hiking tariffs by up to 25% in the past two days. While Reliance Jio hiked tariffs by 12-25% on Thursday, Bharti Airtel went for a 10-21% increase, followed by 10-23% by Vodafone Idea on Friday.

The days when there were longer gaps between tariffs revisions, sometimes over two years, seem to be over. Tariffs were last raised by the operators in November 2021 and before it in December 2019.