{"id":1044414,"date":"2026-10-19T07:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044414"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:22:54","slug":"bharti-airtel-launches-voice-only-prepaid-plans-starting-at-rs-185-after-trais-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/bharti-airtel-launches-voice-only-prepaid-plans-starting-at-rs-185-after-trais-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel launches voice-only prepaid plans starting at Rs 185 after TRAI&#8217;s mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Bharti Airtel has become the first telecom operator to roll out voice-and-SMS-only prepaid plans, in line with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India&#8217;s (TRAI) new norms, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The three plans are priced at Rs 185, Rs 203 and Rs 206. Each offers unlimited local, STD and roaming calls and 300 SMS, but no bundled mobile data. The plans are now listed on the Airtel app and website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Bharti Airtel has become the first telecom operator to roll out voice-and-SMS-only prepaid plans, in line with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India&#8217;s (TRAI) new norms, according to sources. The three plans are priced at Rs 185, Rs 203 and Rs 206. Each offers unlimited local, STD and roaming calls and 300 SMS, but no bundled mobile data. The plans are now listed on the Airtel app and website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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-1044414","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\/1044414","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044416,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044414\/revisions\/1044416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}