{"id":827998,"date":"2024-07-01T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=827998"},"modified":"2024-07-01T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:22:46","slug":"recent-tariff-hikes-may-drive-more-users-away-from-vodafone-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/01\/recent-tariff-hikes-may-drive-more-users-away-from-vodafone-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Recent tariff hikes may drive more users away from Vodafone Idea&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) is likely to face a tough time ring-fencing its 2G users, with recent tariff hikes making it clear that larger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel will still go all out to target the struggling operator&#8217;s low-end subscribers, say analysts. Telecom market leader Reliance Jio has left its 4G feature phone rates unchanged, while Bharti Airtel has hardly tinkered with its entry-level plans, underlining their ambitions to grab Vi&#8217;s 2G users. For other subscriber groups, they have raised peak tariffs by 20-25%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) is likely to face a tough time ring-fencing its 2G users, with recent tariff hikes making it clear that larger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel will still go all out to target the struggling operator&#8217;s low-end subscribers, say analysts. Telecom market leader Reliance Jio has left its 4G feature phone rates unchanged, while Bharti Airtel has hardly tinkered with its entry-level plans, underlining their ambitions to grab Vi&#8217;s 2G users. For other subscriber groups, they have raised peak tariffs by 20-25%.<\/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-827998","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\/827998","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=827998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}