{"id":1044476,"date":"2026-10-19T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044476"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:11:05","slug":"bharti-airtel-becomes-first-indian-telco-to-launch-voice-only-tariffs-after-trai-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/bharti-airtel-becomes-first-indian-telco-to-launch-voice-only-tariffs-after-trai-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel becomes first Indian telco to launch voice-only tariffs after TRAI mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has become the first Indian telecom operator to launch voice- and SMS-only prepaid plans, aligned with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India\u2019s (TRAI) mandate, according to the latest listing on its website.<\/p>\n<p>These new affordable Airtel prepaid plans are priced at \u20b9185, \u20b9203, and \u20b9206, which offer unlimited local, STD, and roaming calls but no bundled mobile data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has become the first Indian telecom operator to launch voice- and SMS-only prepaid plans, aligned with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India\u2019s (TRAI) mandate, according to the latest listing on its website. These new affordable Airtel prepaid plans are priced at \u20b9185, \u20b9203, and \u20b9206, which offer unlimited local, STD, and roaming calls but no bundled mobile data.<\/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-1044476","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\/1044476","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=1044476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044477,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044476\/revisions\/1044477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}