{"id":1028569,"date":"2026-08-13T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028569"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:39:17","slug":"airtel-discontinues-rs299-prepaid-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/13\/airtel-discontinues-rs299-prepaid-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel discontinues Rs299 prepaid plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a step towards a tariff hike, Bharti Airtel has discontinued several prepaid plans, with customers now having to opt for higher-priced plans. <\/p>\n<p>The company has removed the Rs299 plan, with the Rs349 pack now being the nearest available option, effectively increasing the price by around 16% for customers who were using the Rs299 plan. <\/p>\n<p>Along with this, the company has also discontinued its Rs579, Rs619 and Rs649 prepaid plans across India, with the changes coming into effect from August 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a step towards a tariff hike, Bharti Airtel has discontinued several prepaid plans, with customers now having to opt for higher-priced plans. The company has removed the Rs299 plan, with the Rs349 pack now being the nearest available option, effectively increasing the price by around 16% for customers who were using the Rs299 plan. Along with this, the company has also discontinued its Rs579, Rs619 and Rs649 prepaid plans across India, with the changes coming into effect from August 12.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028569","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=1028569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028584,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028569\/revisions\/1028584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}