Sunil Mittal in an Interview recently has revealed price hikes in data are inevitable in the coming months.
Sunil Mittal the chairman and MD of Bharathi Airtel in an interview recently has revealed that currently, people are getting 16Gb of high-speed internet for 160 rupees but he says that users should pay Rs 160 for 1.6Gb, which is an increase of 100 rupees for a Gb of Data. If you are paying Rs 45 now, your bill can go up to Rs 100 per month for data charges.
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Sunil Mittal at the book launch of his colleague Akhil Gupta at Bharathi Enterprise has expressed his views on increasing the data prices as he feels that the current data prices are not sustainable and he says that he is not asking for prices to increase to $50 - $60 but to increase the data prices to $2 for 16Gb of data. Mittal also referred that 16gb for Rs 160 is a major set back and will affect the bottom line of telcos.
This means that Airtel is trying to increase the price of its data plan, Currently, the lowest plan that Airtel is offering is its Rs199 plan in which Airtel is offering 1Gb of Data per day for a period of 28 days, This means that You will only get 2.4Gb for 28 days instead 28Gb for the same period.
Users of Airtel should be careful as there would be a lot of hikes in the coming months as expressed by Mittal, Sunil Mittal further said that currently the Average Revenue per user (ARPU) is very and he wants To have an ARPU of about Rs 300 to make the industry sustainable for long term. And he expressed that he will slowly increase the prices in the coming months.
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