{"id":980808,"date":"2025-12-18T09:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980808"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:32:53","slug":"bharti-airtel-vs-jio-the-2026-outlook-why-jm-financial-sees-one-telecom-giant-surging-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/18\/bharti-airtel-vs-jio-the-2026-outlook-why-jm-financial-sees-one-telecom-giant-surging-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel Vs Jio \u2013 The 2026 outlook: Why JM Financial sees one telecom giant surging ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jio and Bharti Airtel sit at the centre of India\u2019s telecom duopoly, but JM Financial\u2019s latest assessment shows the strength heading into 2026 will not be evenly split. JM Financial believes that the visibility for a 15% tariff hike has increased sharply, with Jio\u2019s plan to pursue an IPO in the first half of 2026 likely to push operators to raise prices. <\/p>\n<p>The brokerage noted that keeping the \u201cthree-plus-one\u201d market viable will require higher tariffs, since current prices do not show the cost of building and maintaining dense 5G networks. According to them, \u201ctariff correction is no longer optional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jio and Bharti Airtel sit at the centre of India\u2019s telecom duopoly, but JM Financial\u2019s latest assessment shows the strength heading into 2026 will not be evenly split. JM Financial believes that the visibility for a 15% tariff hike has increased sharply, with Jio\u2019s plan to pursue an IPO in the first half of 2026 likely to push operators to raise prices. The brokerage noted that keeping the \u201cthree-plus-one\u201d market viable will require higher tariffs, since current prices do not show the cost of building and maintaining dense 5G networks. According to them, \u201ctariff correction is no longer optional.\u201d<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980808","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=980808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}