{"id":980619,"date":"2025-12-17T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980619"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:00:06","slug":"morgan-stanley-predicts-16-20-telecom-tariff-jump-in-q1-fy27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/17\/morgan-stanley-predicts-16-20-telecom-tariff-jump-in-q1-fy27\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley predicts 16-20% telecom tariff jump in Q1 FY27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Stanley expects telecom companies to raise prices by 16-20% on 4G and 5G plans between April and June 2026 . That&#8217;s sooner and steeper than their earlier forecast of a mid-year 15% increase. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now assuming 16-20 % tariff increases across 4G\/5G plans, both prepaid and postpaid, in 2026,&#8221; analysts said in a December 15 report. Recent moves like removing cheap plans and bundling streaming services only with premium tiers signal companies are preparing customers for higher prices, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Stanley expects telecom companies to raise prices by 16-20% on 4G and 5G plans between April and June 2026 . That&#8217;s sooner and steeper than their earlier forecast of a mid-year 15% increase. &#8220;We are now assuming 16-20 % tariff increases across 4G\/5G plans, both prepaid and postpaid, in 2026,&#8221; analysts said in a December 15 report. Recent moves like removing cheap plans and bundling streaming services only with premium tiers signal companies are preparing customers for higher prices, it said.<\/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-980619","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\/980619","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=980619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}