{"id":1001795,"date":"2026-04-09T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001795"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:51:47","slug":"trai-proposes-mandating-telcos-to-offer-affordable-plans-for-voice-sms-services-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/trai-proposes-mandating-telcos-to-offer-affordable-plans-for-voice-sms-services-only\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI proposes mandating telcos to offer affordable plans for voice, SMS services only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday proposed to mandate telecom operators to roll out affordable mobile plans with only calling and SMS services, compared to the current special tariff vouchers (STVs), which also includes data. <\/p>\n<p>In the draft Telecom Consumer Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulation, 2026, the regulator said it has mandated that every telco shall offer at least one special tariff voucher exclusively for calling (voice) and SMS only, but companies issued a few plans with longer validity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday proposed to mandate telecom operators to roll out affordable mobile plans with only calling and SMS services, compared to the current special tariff vouchers (STVs), which also includes data. In the draft Telecom Consumer Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulation, 2026, the regulator said it has mandated that every telco shall offer at least one special tariff voucher exclusively for calling (voice) and SMS only, but companies issued a few plans with longer validity.<\/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-1001795","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\/1001795","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=1001795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}