Sunil Mittal bats for mobile tariff hikes, says ₹10-12 a day affordable

New Delhi: Bharti Airtel founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Thursday said Indian mobile tariffs should rise to about ₹350 a month per user, arguing that rising costs and a large infrastructure backlog make today’s prices too low to fund what the country still has to build.

He, however, gave no timelines for raising tariffs. Asked when the industry would reach that level, he said: “I don’t know.”

In an interview with PTI marking Bharti Enterprises’ 50th year, Mittal said the level he used to cite is out of date. “I used to say earlier, the right level is ₹300 (monthly revenue per user), but that was 10 years back,” he said. “There’s some inflation that we all suffer.”