Bharti Airtel, Vodafone to hike tariffs from December 1

Vodafone Idea (VIL) and Bharti Airtel on Monday said that both companies will increase tariffs from December 1. This will be the first time since September 2016 when Reliance Jio launched its services that tariffs will be revised upwards by the telecom companies. However, both the companies did not say whether the tariff hike will be an increase in headline rates or realisations will improve by way of reducing the validity of pre-paid vouchers.

Currently, data rates for consumers at an average of Rs 8 per GB is the lowest in the world. The average revenue per user per month has declined from Rs 174 in FY15 to Rs 113 in FY19. A subscriber on an average uses 10 GB of data and 700 minutes of mobile talk time per month.