{"id":1037987,"date":"2026-09-23T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037987"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:24:29","slug":"trai-orders-cheaper-voice-and-sms-vouchers-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/trai-orders-cheaper-voice-and-sms-vouchers-for-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI orders cheaper voice-and-SMS vouchers for consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) Telecom regulator Trai has mandated telecom operators to issue special tariff vouchers for voice calls and SMS at a lower cost as it will not come bundled with data services, a new regulation said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>As per the Telecom Consumers Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2026 issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, telecom operators will have to issue special tariff vouchers (STVs) for voice calls and SMS only similar to the existing one that come bundled with data, voice calls and SMS carrying validity of 30 days or less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) Telecom regulator Trai has mandated telecom operators to issue special tariff vouchers for voice calls and SMS at a lower cost as it will not come bundled with data services, a new regulation said on Tuesday. As per the Telecom Consumers Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2026 issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, telecom operators will have to issue special tariff vouchers (STVs) for voice calls and SMS only similar to the existing one that come bundled with data, voice calls and SMS carrying validity of 30 days or less.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037987","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=1037987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037996,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037987\/revisions\/1037996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}