{"id":1042689,"date":"2026-10-13T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042689"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:25:28","slug":"bharti-airtels-postpaid-refresh-may-drive-2-uplift-in-blended-mobile-arpu-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/bharti-airtels-postpaid-refresh-may-drive-2-uplift-in-blended-mobile-arpu-analysts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel\u2019s postpaid refresh may drive 2% uplift in blended mobile ARPU: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel\u2019s recent decision to bundle free international roaming (IR) with its new postpaid plans will accelerate migration of prepaid users, according to analysts. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel\u2019s refreshed postpaid portfolio, which is costlier by \u20b950 at the entry level and across key plans, represents a 3-11% tariff hike, they said, adding that a full absorption across the telco\u2019s postpaid base may drive a nearly 2% uplift in its blended mobile average revenue per user (ARPU).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel\u2019s recent decision to bundle free international roaming (IR) with its new postpaid plans will accelerate migration of prepaid users, according to analysts. Airtel\u2019s refreshed postpaid portfolio, which is costlier by \u20b950 at the entry level and across key plans, represents a 3-11% tariff hike, they said, adding that a full absorption across the telco\u2019s postpaid base may drive a nearly 2% uplift in its blended mobile average revenue per user (ARPU).<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042689","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=1042689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042699,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042689\/revisions\/1042699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}