Telcos to hike tariffs by up to 20%

The telecom service providers, across the board, will be hiking the subscriber tariffs by about 20%, on an incremental basis, in the month of December.

After years of slashing the prices of the plans, after the advent of a bitter tariff war since the billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Jio started its operations, this is the first time that telcos are going for the price hike.

Multiple sources across different telcos confirmed to DH that the price hike is likely to be near 20%. “We are planning to increase tariffs by 20%,” said multiple sources.

The sources also suggested that these tariff hikes are more likely to hit the pre-paid subscribers than the post-paid ones. As of date, both Reliance Jio and Airtel have most of the users in the pre-paid plans.