Might be a good time to do a yearly recharge on your prepaid mobile phone!

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Why investors are less enthused about deferment of telecom spectrum dues

We could be facing more hikes in future as most companies will want more handouts from govt or from the customers pockets. They wil not address their own sloth, arrogance, incompetence. Like for example Airtel honeymoon in Africa which has gone sour & inspite of selling it, has left a dent in its finances. With Vodafone it's another story altogether. Sadly for all customers of these companies.
 
price hike warnings is a good away to make people do long term recharges and stick to the same operator. 😏

Hope they will not increase data limits to make network more congested.
 
I would prefer paying the hiked price later than doing a long term recharge right now and be stuck with 1 operator.
 
Because govt want both airtel and voda to survive. They want relief from court order but that would make jio furious.
So all round benefits would be getting benefits to all 4 operators without paying anything from pocket. Now that Jio is a market leader, ask it to not involve in tariff war and make it rise to some pre-defined level where its profitable for all four operators.
Win-win for everyone except ofcourse consumers but they were having honeymoon till now.
Bsnl/voda/airtel would come back to health and jio would get good roi on investment.
 

I think a lot of consumers are not shocked or against the price hike because current prices are quite low, someone calculated wireless data plans are cheaper than what jio fiber is offering and most important network quality has deteriorated so much, telecom companies have just stopped paying attention to network complaints.

If this price hike can finally improve network problem then I am all for it.
 
In all likelihood they will pocket the extra cash & still not bother about QoS as customers have nowhere to run. All everyone know it's almost become compulsory to have a phone. I recently read the utterances by COAI chief & it does not encourage confidence.
 
exactly prices would be approx same for all operators so only their quality of network will determine who gets more customers but then they act like cartel 😬
 
Infact before the advent of Jio, Airtel & Vodafone were suspected by many to have atleast an informal cartel. They always raised prices in identical values & at the same time, even then TRAI was a mute spectator. ☹🥴
 
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Now all three private players have formed cartel, leaving no option for consumer......

Looking back at the events of past few months, it seems like a NOORA KUSHTI show was put up by all three to fleece the customers, which started as IUC drama by Jio.

Indian consumer don't want free/ subsidized service but good quality at fair price which is possible when there is competition not cartelisation..... Also important is the presence of strong and neutral regulator which is not the case now.
 
Vodafone has announced new tarrifs, cannot find a good article to share.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

Vodafone Idea Charges: Voda Idea to raise mobile call, data charges from Dec 3 by up to 42%

The company has announced new plans for prepaid product and services with 2 days, 28 days, 84 days, 365 days validity. A rough calculation showed that the new plans are costlier up to 42 per cent compared to earlier plans.
economictimes.indiatimes.com economictimes.indiatimes.com

edit: jio has spread the on-net off-net virus.
 
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