{"id":958055,"date":"2025-08-28T07:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958055"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:02:06","slug":"data-plan-tweaks-signal-tariff-hikes-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/data-plan-tweaks-signal-tariff-hikes-analysts\/","title":{"rendered":"Data plan tweaks signal tariff hikes: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent tweaks in entry-level data plans by private telcos, analysts said, should be seen as the precursor to a broad-based tariff increase that is likely to weigh on price-sensitive mobile subscribers in tier-2 and beyond markets. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This 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,&#8221; Ankit Jain, vice president &amp; sector head (corporate ratings), ICRA, told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent tweaks in entry-level data plans by private telcos, analysts said, should be seen as the precursor to a broad-based tariff increase that is likely to weigh on price-sensitive mobile subscribers in tier-2 and beyond markets. &#8220;This 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,&#8221; Ankit Jain, vice president &amp; sector head (corporate ratings), ICRA, [&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-958055","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\/958055","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=958055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}