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Mobile recharge price hike by 25% - (just a hunch/speculation it not hiked yet or may never hiked as much as 25%)

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₹20 daily
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Lets say u did 30rs top up daily u will technically pay ₹10 from pocket daily
U will get ₹22.41 worth talktime daily for just ₹10

Now do the maths
lets see....12.41 daily profit....approx 4.5k annual gains.....for that everyday do the routine....if it's worth your time....do it....if not then ignore....
 
can you tell me how you get it...which section?
I dont think it comes under any section. My employer provides it too. What they do is they show that they are reimbursing the bill to IT dept so you don't have to pay income tax on it.
 
Why? Cost of everything goes up each year and in fact every few months. Food has gone up so much in restaurants. Petrol is up. Doctors and lawyers charge 4x today compared to a few years earlier. Buying a shirt costs thousands now. People are happy to spend 1k to 5k on a family outing or buying a shirt or 500 on a pizza or Starbucks but cry when asked to pay even 300 for one full month of telecom with 5g service, a lot of data and unlimited calls. This mindset needs to change. Like everything else, it is reasonable to expect a hike in telecom tariff every year.
How many people in india can afford this lifestyle...Irony is that 80 crore people are surviving on free govt ration i.e. they are below poverty line...
 
How many people in india can afford this lifestyle...Irony is that 80 crore people are surviving on free govt ration i.e. they are below poverty line...
That's not the concern of the service providers. The government can offer a subsidy where they pay some amount for the very poor to enable them to access the service. Like for healthcare, the poor can go to Apollo or Max amd the government pays the bill. The hospital is not forced to make their services cheap. In addition, public sector telcos like BSNL can provide cheaper rates. Private players have to go by market conditions.
 
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They are luring us into a trap, which is why it's concerning. Does everyone buy expensive clothes? No. Does everyone spend ₹5,000 on dining? No. Does everyone drink Starbucks? No.

But in the case of recharges, Jio made everyone so addicted to it by offering it for free that now no one can live without it. First, they offered everything for free, and now they are continuously increasing the prices.
People are free to make do without a mobile phone. They pay for it because they see value in it and it enhances their quality of life, improves their income and helps in their business.
 
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That's not the concern of the service providers. The government can offer a subsidy where they pay some amount for the very poor to enable them to access the service. Like for healthcare, the poor can go to Apollo or Max amd the government pays the bill. The hospital is not forced to make their services cheap. In addition, public sector telcos like BSNL can provide cheaper rates. Private players have to go by market conditions.
Govt should have prevented predatory pricing as offered by one of the telecom company (promise of life time free service) to completely KILL the Competition. 10 Telecom Companies were SHUT down due to predatory pricing and after the competition is finished then we cannot give justification to increase the price...In this whole scenario, common men is fooled.
 
I dont understand why people complain about pricing nowadays. I remember we used to spend 156 for 1gb 3g data before Jio. I used to get 5 rupee recharge vouchers which gave 30mb of data. And calling was never unlimited. Do a seperate recharge for talktime and then again for tariff if you want cheaper call rates. Out of state calls were another headache. Separate plans for those.

And now we are getting 2gb monthly data and unlimited calling for 179. Considering inflation as well I don't think the price hike is too much.

Another point is the infrastructure growth that telecom industry has gone through in recent years is amazing. We get 5G almost everywhere. Broadband, airfiber has reached to so many places.
 
where do we see the additional plans bought in Airtel thanks app?...I bought one additional plan but cannot see it in app.
 
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