{"id":1048942,"date":"2026-11-13T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048942"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:58:29","slug":"sunil-mittal-bats-for-mobile-tariff-hikes-says-%e2%82%b910-12-a-day-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/13\/sunil-mittal-bats-for-mobile-tariff-hikes-says-%e2%82%b910-12-a-day-affordable\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Mittal bats for mobile tariff hikes, says \u20b910-12 a day affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Thursday said Indian mobile tariffs should rise to about \u20b9350 a month per user, arguing that rising costs and a large infrastructure backlog make today&#8217;s prices too low to fund what the country still has to build.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, gave no timelines for raising tariffs. Asked when the industry would reach that level, he said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with PTI marking Bharti Enterprises&#8217; 50th year, Mittal said the level he used to cite is out of date. &#8220;I used to say earlier, the right level is \u20b9300 (monthly revenue per user), but that was 10 years back,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s some inflation that we all suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Thursday said Indian mobile tariffs should rise to about \u20b9350 a month per user, arguing that rising costs and a large infrastructure backlog make today&#8217;s prices too low to fund what the country still has to build. He, however, gave no timelines for raising tariffs. Asked when the industry would reach that level, he said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; In an interview with PTI marking Bharti Enterprises&#8217; 50th year, Mittal said the level he used to cite is out of date. &#8220;I used to say earlier, the right level is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1048942","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\/1048942","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048945,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048942\/revisions\/1048945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}