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Boycott airtel price hike.. Trick for incoming Validity required

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Hi All, With the recent price hike in airtel plans the min recharge plan is changed to 155 but that is for 24 days only. Taking Validity into account 99 plan is now changed to 179, which makes it now difficult to use airtel as a incoming sim. Any tricks anyone has to keep the incoming Validity, plz pm
Also share which company is now offering cheapest incoming plan. So we all can boycott airtel and port out.
Thanks
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Shopping Friend Shopping Friend
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BSNL 201 - 90 days

With 300 min call + 99 sms + 3gb data.

Finance Ninja Finance Ninja
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Its saying Only for GP2 Customers?
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Entertainer Entertainer
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I think they want everyone to use only one sim for everything hence raising recharge prices so that it's difficult to maintain multiple sims

Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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If they starts to increase tariff at such a rate then soon there will be only 1 sim card for entire family.

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Mobile Guru Mobile Guru
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BSNL is cheaper but after using their service for sometime, u might start feeling to boycott it for other reasons (Like Network, missed calls/sms) stuck_out_tongue
Firestorm Firestorm
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+1 2g bhi nahi hai thik se . Mere ko ab regret ho rha kyu load kra main balance bsnl me 107 ~ 90days se ab  50days kr diya .   Aaram se 107 cut kr rhe hai free me .. 2019 me liya tha 4g upgrade sim wo bhi paid joy

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Benevolent Benevolent
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Airtel wanted ₹200 ARPU and now it has ₹190 ARPU, how much more it want??

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Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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From last 3 years I am not recharge my jio sim but I received incoming calls and messages 

Pro DealBaba Pro DealBaba
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First industry followed jio, now they are following airtel.

Pro Community Angel Pro Community Angel
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Industry followed jio to stay in the market and now they are following airtel to get more profits and jio is just moving a step back to be a good boy in front of users

Finance Mentor Finance Mentor
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99 plan still available. 

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Benevolent Benevolent
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Mumbai?
Can't find this plan on Airtel website o.O
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Wingman Wingman
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If you are ok with kinda speed and network to compromise go for mtnl bsnl.
Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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Airtel mukt Bharat

Deal Captain Deal Captain
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We should wish away whatever we don't like stuck_out_tongue

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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What’s the big problem? People happily pay 150 to 250 for a single meal per person but cry about paying 200 for a full month of telephone service. Doesn’t your fuel price go up every so often? So does electricity, restaurants, train fares, doctor fees etc. Consulting a doctor at a decent hospital used to cost around 400 a decade back. It went up to 600, then 800, 1000 and is now 1200 to 1500 depending upon the hospital.  Why always cry about telecom? Prices for almost everything have increased dramatically in the past couple of years.

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Yes, I'm also have the same opinion but the problem here is Airtel increasing costs without improving network coverage last auction they didn't buy sub ghz 5g spectrum for indoor coverage, give users 5g nsa with few cities covered while the competitor jio bought n28 band and deployed superior low Latency 5g sa. Airtel got record profits from last hike still can't provide decent services my primary sim is airtel I will be happy to pay more if they provide decent 5g coverage better than jio.

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Benevolent Benevolent
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Citizens now need to come to terms with the reality. Spending less than Rs. 200 per month for a lifeline service involving installation of transmission towers, cables, operating and maintaining that infra, renting 4g/5g at exorbitant Govt fees; is not a big deal.

Compare it with the amount you spend every month for avoidable luxuries of life.

Firestorm Firestorm
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Firestorm Firestorm
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Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Can someone please explain ?

How were telecoms profitable before jio ? Many used to recharge with ₹10/- every month for most of the calling needs during per second tarrif, still telecom sector was profitable. Now on an average people are recharging ₹150/- per month and they say we are making losses.

I didn't understand this math. grin

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It is because next to the ₹10 recharge guy there will be another person who recharges their phone for ₹500 for internet and calling. When you calculate the ARPU of ₹500 and ₹10 guy it will be ₹255 each. ₹500 guy essentially subsidizes ₹10 guy so telecom companies are happy to provide life time sim with ₹10 recharge. After jio ₹500 guy only has to spend for his own cost ie, paying ₹200 for unlimited calling and internet. So telecom companies now need to get rid of freeloaders to free up spectrum and cost 
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Benevolent Benevolent
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Airtel didn't disappoint me after a long, long time. They finally activated the  Rs 1799 UL calling pack from main balance today upon my request. So that takes care of my one of primary Airtel nos. They had agreed back in September but when I had placed a request last week their attitude didn't inspire much confidence in me. Very surprising as it comes less than 2 weeks after a bad experience in my other primary no. in which due to USSD error auto-debit couldn't be disabled on the only day that Airtel generously allows it. I had furnished a video recording of the error as proof following which Airtel Twitter on a telephonic conversation promised to refund it but later they refused to honour their word. Oh well. Turns out it wasn't too bad as in light of the 99 pack being removed altogether a few days later.


Wingman Wingman
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I feel we spend more considering 199/250 pack nowadays for a month. Those hardly male calls for them. We need a mtnl like plans 199 1.5/2 gb a day for 1 month. What a era in 2009-2015 where use to spend 0.10/0.30 paise per minute only. I know Uninor - Badalta discount was offering. I use to spent 0.09 paise something some time every hours.
Deal Newbie Deal Newbie
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Just use jio for incoming calls and sms they dont cut the connnection i have used like this for 3 months and they havent yet cut any incoming calls or sms for now atleast.

Crusader Crusader
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I wish there's a slab rate for telcos billing too. Just like the electricity bill in Tamil Nadu.
For the first 100 units it's free..
For 101 to 200 it's 2.2 rupees something and so on..

So the users with minimal usage are benefitted..

In my family..all our primary Airtel numbers are ported to jio..and all the secondary numbers are ported to BSNL for good..

Now all jio numbers are recharged with a 395 plan as we have wifi at home.. and data usage is minimal to zero when outside..

These bundled packs from all operators are a burden on the pocket to many people

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Crusader Crusader
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Also the same issue with the dth plans..
Earlier one used to get all channels for under 200 ₹..
Now that TRAI has given us the option to choose our own pack..it's costing more than earlier..

I don't know whether TRAI is favouring operators or public..

Tech Guru Tech Guru
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In the meantime Vi has updated their 99 plan it seems. At a glance it seems they have changed the call rate from 1p /sec to 2.5p /sec . This might indicate on Vi the 99 plan gonna stay.

https://www.gadgets360.com/telecom/news/vi-rs-9...

Benevolent Benevolent
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Vi had also recently introduced Rs 279 pack with 90 days validity watch works out Rs 18 cheaper than Rs 99x3. One does lose out on 2x7 days of IC though... 

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Jio zindabad

Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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Time to buy IndusTowers share 😃

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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Is there any kind soul can help me recharging international roaming using airtel axis to save some money?

Deal Lieutenant Deal Lieutenant
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Whats the minimun recharge required in airtel to send the port ? Current plan is expired so do i need to recharge with 155 to send it?

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@LIMBO @guest_999

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