{"id":956158,"date":"2025-08-20T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956158"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:35:15","slug":"reliance-jio-airtel-hike-entry-level-data-plan-vodafone-idea-may-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/reliance-jio-airtel-hike-entry-level-data-plan-vodafone-idea-may-follow-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliance Jio, Airtel hike entry-level data plan, Vodafone Idea may follow suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Consumers are set to pay more to start using data on their mobile phones. After Reliance Jio\u2019s move to discontinue its entry-level \u20b9249 prepaid plan offering 1 GB data a day, rival Bharti Airtel followed suit by removing its similarly priced plan from Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s third-largest telecom operator, Vodafone Idea (Vi), too, is expected to join its rivals soon, according to industry executives and analysts.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, consumers wanting to use data would need to start with a 1.5 GB a day plan, which is priced higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Consumers are set to pay more to start using data on their mobile phones. After Reliance Jio\u2019s move to discontinue its entry-level \u20b9249 prepaid plan offering 1 GB data a day, rival Bharti Airtel followed suit by removing its similarly priced plan from Wednesday. India\u2019s third-largest telecom operator, Vodafone Idea (Vi), too, is expected to join its rivals soon, according to industry executives and analysts. As a result, consumers wanting to use data would need to start with a 1.5 GB a day plan, which is priced higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-956158","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\/956158","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}