{"id":1028436,"date":"2026-08-13T07:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028436"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:53:14","slug":"bharti-airtel-discontinues-select-prepaid-plans-as-telco-eyes-arpu-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/13\/bharti-airtel-discontinues-select-prepaid-plans-as-telco-eyes-arpu-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel discontinues select prepaid plans as telco eyes ARPU growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has discontinued its \u20b9299, \u20b9319, \u20b9579, \u20b9619, and \u20b9649 prepaid plans effective immediately, as India\u2019s second-largest telco looks to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU). <\/p>\n<p>The telco\u2019s next available plans in the affected categories will cost 5% to 16% more, according to a review of the latest listing on Airtel\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>Following the removal of Airtel\u2019s affordable \u20b9299 plan, the next plan is priced at \u20b9349, reflecting a 16% increase. The discontinued plan offered 1.5GB data per day, while the \u20b9349 plan offers 2GB data per day for 28 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has discontinued its \u20b9299, \u20b9319, \u20b9579, \u20b9619, and \u20b9649 prepaid plans effective immediately, as India\u2019s second-largest telco looks to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU). The telco\u2019s next available plans in the affected categories will cost 5% to 16% more, according to a review of the latest listing on Airtel\u2019s website. Following the removal of Airtel\u2019s affordable \u20b9299 plan, the next plan is priced at \u20b9349, reflecting a 16% increase. The discontinued plan offered 1.5GB data per day, while the \u20b9349 plan offers 2GB data per day for 28 days.<\/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-1028436","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\/1028436","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=1028436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028449,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028436\/revisions\/1028449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}