{"id":1013012,"date":"2026-06-09T07:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013012"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:31:41","slug":"indian-telcos-should-stop-providing-free-unlimited-5g-backed-offerings-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/indian-telcos-should-stop-providing-free-unlimited-5g-backed-offerings-analysts\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian telcos should stop providing free unlimited 5G-backed offerings: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Telecom operators should now stop providing free unlimited fifth-generation (5G)-backed offerings and start monetising higher data consumption on the latest networks, according to analysts at Motilal Oswal. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, the top telecom incumbents \u2013 Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) \u2013 offer unlimited 5G data for free on prepaid packs of 2GB per day or more, with prices starting from \u20b9198-199. But with subscribers preferring to buy top-up vouchers to support data consumption needs, it has created headwinds for 5G monetisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Telecom operators should now stop providing free unlimited fifth-generation (5G)-backed offerings and start monetising higher data consumption on the latest networks, according to analysts at Motilal Oswal. Currently, the top telecom incumbents \u2013 Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) \u2013 offer unlimited 5G data for free on prepaid packs of 2GB per day or more, with prices starting from \u20b9198-199. But with subscribers preferring to buy top-up vouchers to support data consumption needs, it has created headwinds for 5G monetisation.<\/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-1013012","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\/1013012","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=1013012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013026,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013012\/revisions\/1013026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}