{"id":956957,"date":"2025-08-23T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956957"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:56:08","slug":"tweaks-in-data-plans-precursor-to-broader-tariff-hikes-may-impact-price-sensitive-users-analysts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/tweaks-in-data-plans-precursor-to-broader-tariff-hikes-may-impact-price-sensitive-users-analysts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweaks in data plans precursor to broader tariff hikes, may impact price-sensitive users: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The private telecom carriers\u2019 recent tweaks in entry-level data plans is a precursor to a broad-based tariff hike in fiscal year 2026 (FY26), and the move is expected to weigh on price-sensitive mobile subscribers in tier-2 &amp; beyond markets, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can be called a precursor to the broad line tariff hikes, and all the private telcos have openly stated the need for a tariff hike. ICRA also expects that in the current financial year, there will be a tariff hike, although the quantum can be slightly lower than what was there last time,\u201d Ankit Jain, vice president &amp; sector head (corporate ratings), ICRA, told ETTelecom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The private telecom carriers\u2019 recent tweaks in entry-level data plans is a precursor to a broad-based tariff hike in fiscal year 2026 (FY26), and the move is expected to weigh on price-sensitive mobile subscribers in tier-2 &amp; beyond markets, according to analysts. \u201cThis can be called a precursor to the broad line tariff hikes, and all the private telcos have openly stated the need for a tariff hike. ICRA also expects that in the current financial year, there will be a tariff hike, although the quantum can be slightly lower than what was there last time,\u201d Ankit Jain, [&hellip;]<\/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-956957","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\/956957","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=956957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}