{"id":1039745,"date":"2026-09-30T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039745"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:57:48","slug":"trai-orders-cheaper-voice-and-sms-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/trai-orders-cheaper-voice-and-sms-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI orders cheaper voice-and-SMS packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For millions of Indians who mostly use their phones for calls and texts, prepaid recharge has often felt like being forced to buy a combo meal. Staying connected at the lowest cost usually meant paying for mobile data they hardly used. Now, that is starting to change. <\/p>\n<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has notified the Telecom Consumers Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2026, directing operators such as Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea to expand voice-and-SMS-only Special Tariff Vouchers. The rules take effect about 30 days after gazette publication, putting the new packs on shop floors and apps around late October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For millions of Indians who mostly use their phones for calls and texts, prepaid recharge has often felt like being forced to buy a combo meal. Staying connected at the lowest cost usually meant paying for mobile data they hardly used. Now, that is starting to change. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has notified the Telecom Consumers Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2026, directing operators such as Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea to expand voice-and-SMS-only Special Tariff Vouchers. The rules take effect about 30 days after gazette publication, putting the new packs on shop floors and apps [&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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039745","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\/1039745","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=1039745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039763,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039745\/revisions\/1039763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}