{"id":1000956,"date":"2026-04-04T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000956"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:06:02","slug":"any-imposition-of-mobile-data-usage-tax-to-be-regressive-impact-lower-income-groups-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/any-imposition-of-mobile-data-usage-tax-to-be-regressive-impact-lower-income-groups-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Any imposition of mobile data usage tax to be regressive, impact lower-income groups: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A potential imposition of a mobile data usage tax would be a regressive move and further cramp telecom operators\u2019 headroom to take further tariff hikes, at a time when the industry is directly and indirectly taking measures to grow their average revenue per user (ARPU), according to analysts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our view, a mobile data usage tax will not distinguish between productive and unproductive use and would be regressive since the impact will be borne disproportionately by lower-income groups, who may not have access to fixed broadband,\u201d the homegrown brokerage said in a research note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A potential imposition of a mobile data usage tax would be a regressive move and further cramp telecom operators\u2019 headroom to take further tariff hikes, at a time when the industry is directly and indirectly taking measures to grow their average revenue per user (ARPU), according to analysts. \u201cIn our view, a mobile data usage tax will not distinguish between productive and unproductive use and would be regressive since the impact will be borne disproportionately by lower-income groups, who may not have access to fixed broadband,\u201d the homegrown brokerage said in a research note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}