New Delhi: Your mobile rates are set to ride.
Bharti Airtel, one of the oldest cellular operators in the country, will increase rates for pre-paid customers to 20-25% from November 26, indicating hardening rates when companies see ways to support profitability above 5G and telecommunications networks.
Rates for post-paid customers can also rise further after several changes made recently.
Airtel said that this step will help increase cellular average income per user (ARPU) – the main benchmark to measure the profitability of cellular companies – to “Rs 200 and in the end at RS 300 so that it provides a reasonable return on a model for a model Financial healthy business.
“” We also believe that the ARPU level will allow the large investment needed in the network and spectrum.
What is more important, this will provide airtel elbow space to slide 5G in India, “said the company.
Other operators, especially the idea of a financially stretched vodafone, tends to follow.
However, when the company raises tariffs, the focus will return to service quality which is generally lagging behind the break-neck speed where the Indian telecommunications sector has developed over the past few years.
Airtel has increased the minimum vocal tariff plan from Rs 79 to Rs 99, while making changes to voice plans and other pre-dead data.
Airtel lifts rates, others can follow
