{"id":1028707,"date":"2026-08-14T07:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028707"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:45:51","slug":"bharti-airtel-discontinues-select-prepaid-plans-vodafone-idea-may-follow-suit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/bharti-airtel-discontinues-select-prepaid-plans-vodafone-idea-may-follow-suit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel discontinues select prepaid plans, Vodafone Idea may follow suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has discontinued all prepaid plans offering 1.5GB 4G data per day with unlimited calling benefit, and is now offering subscribers pricier options to choose from, as India\u2019s second-largest telco looks to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU).<\/p>\n<p>Analysts said the move is expected to deliver a modest \u20b94-6 ARPU uptick in FY27 for Airtel, adding that rival Vodafone Idea (Vi) may also follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel has withdrawn its only remaining 1GB\/day plan of \u20b9299 (28-day validity); four of its 1.5GB\/day plans, including \u20b9319 plan (30-day), \u20b9579 (56-day), \u20b9619 (69-day) and \u20b9799 (77-day) plan; and discontinued 2GB\/day plan of \u20b9649 (56-da<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has discontinued all prepaid plans offering 1.5GB 4G data per day with unlimited calling benefit, and is now offering subscribers pricier options to choose from, as India\u2019s second-largest telco looks to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU). Analysts said the move is expected to deliver a modest \u20b94-6 ARPU uptick in FY27 for Airtel, adding that rival Vodafone Idea (Vi) may also follow suit. Airtel has withdrawn its only remaining 1GB\/day plan of \u20b9299 (28-day validity); four of its 1.5GB\/day plans, including \u20b9319 plan (30-day), \u20b9579 (56-day), \u20b9619 (69-day) and \u20b9799 (77-day) plan; and discontinued [&hellip;]<\/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-1028707","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\/1028707","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=1028707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028708,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028707\/revisions\/1028708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}