{"id":1003966,"date":"2026-04-21T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003966"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:31:27","slug":"telcos-test-waters-with-smaller-tariff-hikes-before-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/telcos-test-waters-with-smaller-tariff-hikes-before-big-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos test waters with smaller tariff hikes before big one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel adjusted price of its mid-to-long-term validity plans earlier this month, discontinuing the \u20b9799 prepaid pack while increasing the price of the \u20b9859 plan to \u20b9899. While there was no change in the data benefits, the telecom operator started bundling subscriptions to an over-the-top (OTT) streaming app. <\/p>\n<p>Both plans offered 1.5 GB per day. The \u20b9799 plan had a validity period of 77 days, while the revised \u20b9899 plan offers 84 days of validity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel adjusted price of its mid-to-long-term validity plans earlier this month, discontinuing the \u20b9799 prepaid pack while increasing the price of the \u20b9859 plan to \u20b9899. While there was no change in the data benefits, the telecom operator started bundling subscriptions to an over-the-top (OTT) streaming app. Both plans offered 1.5 GB per day. The \u20b9799 plan had a validity period of 77 days, while the revised \u20b9899 plan offers 84 days of 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-1003966","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\/1003966","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=1003966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}