{"id":1037923,"date":"2026-09-23T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037923"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:23:27","slug":"telcos-to-rejig-voice-sms-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/telcos-to-rejig-voice-sms-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos to rejig voice-SMS packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom operators will have to expand their portfolio of voice-and-SMS-only prepaid plans, including shorter-validity options, after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday mandated a new framework aimed at giving consumers greater flexibility in choosing non-data recharges. <\/p>\n<p>Under the new rules, operators will have to offer voice-and-SMS-only special tariff vouchers (STV) with validity periods of 30 days and less than 30 days, corresponding to the shorter-validity options available in their existing tariff offerings. They will also have to provide a plan that can be renewed on the same date every month, besides at least one voice-and-SMS-only STV with a longer validity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom operators will have to expand their portfolio of voice-and-SMS-only prepaid plans, including shorter-validity options, after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday mandated a new framework aimed at giving consumers greater flexibility in choosing non-data recharges. Under the new rules, operators will have to offer voice-and-SMS-only special tariff vouchers (STV) with validity periods of 30 days and less than 30 days, corresponding to the shorter-validity options available in their existing tariff offerings. They will also have to provide a plan that can be renewed on the same date every month, besides at least one voice-and-SMS-only STV with [&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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037923","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\/1037923","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=1037923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037926,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037923\/revisions\/1037926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}