{"id":956184,"date":"2025-08-20T07:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956184"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:57:44","slug":"pay-more-for-data-as-telcos-phase-out-entry-level-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/pay-more-for-data-as-telcos-phase-out-entry-level-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay more for data as telcos phase out entry-level plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers are set to pay more to start using data on their mobile phones. After Reliance Jio&#8217;s move to discontinue its entry-level &#8216;249 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&#8217;s 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},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers are set to pay more to start using data on their mobile phones. After Reliance Jio&#8217;s move to discontinue its entry-level &#8216;249 prepaid plan offering 1 GB data a day, rival Bharti Airtel followed suit by removing its similarly priced plan from Wednesday. India&#8217;s 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-956184","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\/956184","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=956184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}