{"id":1034728,"date":"2026-09-12T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034728"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:45:23","slug":"telecom-tariff-hikes-to-be-gradual-may-lead-to-8-8-5-arpu-growth-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/telecom-tariff-hikes-to-be-gradual-may-lead-to-8-8-5-arpu-growth-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom tariff hikes to be gradual, may lead to 8-8.5% ARPU growth: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UBS India projects a more gradual pace for telecom tariff increases over the next three years, anticipating average revenue per user (ARPU) to grow at a compound annual rate of 8 to 8.5 per cent. This forecast by Navin Killa, Head of Asia Pacific Telecommunications, Media and Internet at UBS India, marks a slowdown from the 12 to 13 per cent growth rate observed in the sector over the past five years, according to a report by CNBC-TV18. <\/p>\n<p>The revised outlook stems from an expectation of a more competitive market, particularly with a better-funded Vodafone Idea. Killa noted that this competitive environment is a key factor driving the view that future price increases will be less aggressive than those seen in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBS India projects a more gradual pace for telecom tariff increases over the next three years, anticipating average revenue per user (ARPU) to grow at a compound annual rate of 8 to 8.5 per cent. This forecast by Navin Killa, Head of Asia Pacific Telecommunications, Media and Internet at UBS India, marks a slowdown from the 12 to 13 per cent growth rate observed in the sector over the past five years, according to a report by CNBC-TV18. The revised outlook stems from an expectation of a more competitive market, particularly with a better-funded Vodafone Idea. Killa noted that this [&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-1034728","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\/1034728","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=1034728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034740,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034728\/revisions\/1034740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}