{"id":1028925,"date":"2026-08-15T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028925"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:12:31","slug":"airtel-discontinues-entry-data-plan-how-rs-5-arpu-boost-add-rs-21-to-valuation-jm-financial-expects-jio-vodafone-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/airtel-discontinues-entry-data-plan-how-rs-5-arpu-boost-add-rs-21-to-valuation-jm-financial-expects-jio-vodafone-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel discontinues entry data plan: How Rs 5 ARPU boost add Rs 21 to valuation? JM Financial expects Jio, Vodafone to follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news in the telecom space \u2013 Bharti Airtel has withdrawn a set of entry-level prepaid data plans with effect from Tuesday, a move brokerage JM Financial believes is aimed at nudging subscribers toward pricier packs rather than a formal tariff hike. Rival telecom operators are yet to announce similar changes, though analysts expect them to follow within days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news in the telecom space \u2013 Bharti Airtel has withdrawn a set of entry-level prepaid data plans with effect from Tuesday, a move brokerage JM Financial believes is aimed at nudging subscribers toward pricier packs rather than a formal tariff hike. Rival telecom operators are yet to announce similar changes, though analysts expect them to follow within 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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028925","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=1028925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028926,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028925\/revisions\/1028926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}