{"id":1037998,"date":"2026-09-23T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037998"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:42:13","slug":"trai-mandates-cheaper-no-data-phone-plans-for-low-income-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/trai-mandates-cheaper-no-data-phone-plans-for-low-income-users\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI mandates cheaper, no data phone plans for low-income users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has mandated telecom operators to offer more short-duration, voice-and-SMS-only special tariff vouchers (STVs) aimed at giving low-income consumers greater flexibility and affordable recharge options. <\/p>\n<p>TRAI on Tuesday notified the Telecom Consumer Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulation, 2026, following a consultation process launched in April this year. The new framework requires telecom service providers to offer the STVs across shorter validity periods, with an appropriate reduction in tariff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has mandated telecom operators to offer more short-duration, voice-and-SMS-only special tariff vouchers (STVs) aimed at giving low-income consumers greater flexibility and affordable recharge options. TRAI on Tuesday notified the Telecom Consumer Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulation, 2026, following a consultation process launched in April this year. The new framework requires telecom service providers to offer the STVs across shorter validity periods, with an appropriate reduction in tariff.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037998","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=1037998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038002,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037998\/revisions\/1038002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}