Mobile Phone Tariff Hike

Vodafone Idea too announced new plans for its prepaid and post-paid plans, effective from July 4.

Bharti Airtel today announced a 10-21 per cent hike in prepaid and postpaid mobile tariffs, a day after larger rival Reliance Jio announced an increase in rates.

The company last month increased the price of its minimum recharge or the entry-level for the 28-day mobile phone service plan by about 57 per cent to Rs 155 in eight circles.

Bharti Airtel has increased the price of its minimum recharge for 28 days mobile phone service plan by about 57 percent to Rs. 155 in Haryana and Odisha, according to the company's website and analysts. The company has stopped its minimum recharge plan of Rs. 99, under which it offered 200MB of data and calls at the rate of Rs. 2.5 paise per secon...

Reliance Industries Shares: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is within stone's throw of the Rs 10 lakh crore milestone -- hovering at Rs 9.92 lakh crore - after its wholly owned subsidiary Reliance Jio announced plans to hike the mobile phone call and data charges. This tariff hike announcement comes on the heels of similar declarations by rivals,...

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio on Tuesday said it will increase mobile phone call and data charges in the next few weeks.

Telecom majors Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel on Monday announced they will increase their tariffs from next month. In separate statements, the companies said the increase in mobile phone call and data charges starting December 1 was warranted for viability of their businesses. The hike in tariffs follows record losses by the companies for the qua...

To check the call drops menace, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is examining whether mobile operators are minting money by inducing the phone calls to drop midway, while it also plans to launch a consultation paper to devise a broader mechanism to address this problem.

Vodafone, India's second largest telecom operator, expects rates of phone calls and other mobile services to go up every year, indicating that low tariff regime may not be sustainable any longer for the industry.

Shares in mobile phone network operators Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular surged on Tuesday on hopes of a rise in speculation that they may soon raise their prices for voice calls, several traders said.

Shares in Reliance Communications rose more than 4 per cent on Friday after the wireless carrier increased mobile phone call prices by about a quarter in four telecom zones.

India, the world's second-biggest mobile phone market with more than 900 million customers, is divided into 22 zones and Mumbai is one of the top zones.

Telecom regulator - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today proposed a steep minimum price for auction of 2G telecom spectrum, setting off fears of a hike in mobile phone tariffs which are at present among the cheapest in the world. The regulator, whose recommendations are not binding on the government, valued 2G spectrum at about Rs 7 ...

Idea Cellular, the country’s fourth-biggest mobile phone carrier by subscribers, has made the most from the facility of the mobile number portability (MNP). The telecom service provider gained maximum number of subscribers (15.72 lakh) from other companies. The company’s share price surged close to 40 per cent and is an outperformer among peers...

Vodafone Idea too announced new plans for its prepaid and post-paid plans, effective from July 4.

Bharti Airtel today announced a 10-21 per cent hike in prepaid and postpaid mobile tariffs, a day after larger rival Reliance Jio announced an increase in rates.

The company last month increased the price of its minimum recharge or the entry-level for the 28-day mobile phone service plan by about 57 per cent to Rs 155 in eight circles.

Bharti Airtel has increased the price of its minimum recharge for 28 days mobile phone service plan by about 57 percent to Rs. 155 in Haryana and Odisha, according to the company's website and analysts. The company has stopped its minimum recharge plan of Rs. 99, under which it offered 200MB of data and calls at the rate of Rs. 2.5 paise per secon...

Reliance Industries Shares: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is within stone's throw of the Rs 10 lakh crore milestone -- hovering at Rs 9.92 lakh crore - after its wholly owned subsidiary Reliance Jio announced plans to hike the mobile phone call and data charges. This tariff hike announcement comes on the heels of similar declarations by rivals,...

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio on Tuesday said it will increase mobile phone call and data charges in the next few weeks.

Telecom majors Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel on Monday announced they will increase their tariffs from next month. In separate statements, the companies said the increase in mobile phone call and data charges starting December 1 was warranted for viability of their businesses. The hike in tariffs follows record losses by the companies for the qua...

To check the call drops menace, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is examining whether mobile operators are minting money by inducing the phone calls to drop midway, while it also plans to launch a consultation paper to devise a broader mechanism to address this problem.

Vodafone, India's second largest telecom operator, expects rates of phone calls and other mobile services to go up every year, indicating that low tariff regime may not be sustainable any longer for the industry.

Shares in mobile phone network operators Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular surged on Tuesday on hopes of a rise in speculation that they may soon raise their prices for voice calls, several traders said.

Shares in Reliance Communications rose more than 4 per cent on Friday after the wireless carrier increased mobile phone call prices by about a quarter in four telecom zones.

India, the world's second-biggest mobile phone market with more than 900 million customers, is divided into 22 zones and Mumbai is one of the top zones.

Telecom regulator - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today proposed a steep minimum price for auction of 2G telecom spectrum, setting off fears of a hike in mobile phone tariffs which are at present among the cheapest in the world. The regulator, whose recommendations are not binding on the government, valued 2G spectrum at about Rs 7 ...

Idea Cellular, the country’s fourth-biggest mobile phone carrier by subscribers, has made the most from the facility of the mobile number portability (MNP). The telecom service provider gained maximum number of subscribers (15.72 lakh) from other companies. The company’s share price surged close to 40 per cent and is an outperformer among peers...