{"id":827416,"date":"2024-06-29T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=827416"},"modified":"2024-06-29T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T04:01:43","slug":"bharti-airtel-hikes-tariffs-by-11-21-a-day-after-reliance-jio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/29\/bharti-airtel-hikes-tariffs-by-11-21-a-day-after-reliance-jio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel hikes tariffs by 11-21%, a day after Reliance Jio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Friday raised tariffs for all its prepaid and postpaid users in a bid to shore up average revenue per user (ARPU), a day after rival Reliance Jio raised rates by 12-15%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bharti Airtel has maintained that the mobile Average Revenue per User (ARPU) needs to be upwards of INR 300, to enable a financially healthy business model for telcos in India. We believe that this level of ARPU will enable the substantial investments required in network technology and spectrum and offer a modest return on capital,&#8221; Airtel said in a statement. &#8220;In this light, we welcome the announcements in the industry to repair tariffs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Friday raised tariffs for all its prepaid and postpaid users in a bid to shore up average revenue per user (ARPU), a day after rival Reliance Jio raised rates by 12-15%. &#8220;Bharti Airtel has maintained that the mobile Average Revenue per User (ARPU) needs to be upwards of INR 300, to enable a financially healthy business model for telcos in India. We believe that this level of ARPU will enable the substantial investments required in network technology and spectrum and offer a modest return on capital,&#8221; Airtel said in a statement. &#8220;In this light, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-827416","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\/827416","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}