{"id":1040522,"date":"2026-10-03T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040522"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:22:55","slug":"telecom-tariff-war-vodafone-idea-bundles-free-roaming-can-airtel-lose-users-to-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/telecom-tariff-war-vodafone-idea-bundles-free-roaming-can-airtel-lose-users-to-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom tariff war: Vodafone Idea bundles free roaming \u2013 Can Airtel lose users to Vi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea has bundled free international roaming into select prepaid, postpaid and enterprise plans, adding roaming benefits to its premium offerings as it seeks to strengthen the value proposition for higher-paying customers. Morgan Stanley said the move could increase competition in the postpaid segment but expects the near-term impact on Bharti Airtel\u2019s churn to remain limited. <\/p>\n<p>The new plans provide eligible customers with international roaming benefits across more than 170 countries. In select postpaid plans, customers can get one to three free international trips for an additional monthly charge, while annual prepaid plans also include roaming benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea has bundled free international roaming into select prepaid, postpaid and enterprise plans, adding roaming benefits to its premium offerings as it seeks to strengthen the value proposition for higher-paying customers. Morgan Stanley said the move could increase competition in the postpaid segment but expects the near-term impact on Bharti Airtel\u2019s churn to remain limited. The new plans provide eligible customers with international roaming benefits across more than 170 countries. In select postpaid plans, customers can get one to three free international trips for an additional monthly charge, while annual prepaid plans also include roaming benefits.<\/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-1040522","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\/1040522","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=1040522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040542,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040522\/revisions\/1040542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}