{"id":2236,"date":"2024-12-26T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2025-01-03T04:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T04:22:37","slug":"trai-mandates-voice-sms-only-recharge-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/trai-mandates-voice-sms-only-recharge-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI mandates Voice, SMS only plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TRAI asks to roll out voice, sms only recharge plans alongside existing bundle data recharges <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is quite beneficial update for phone users in India to save more money! TRAI (The Telecom Authority of India) has asked telecom companies like Jio, Airtel, Vi and BSNL to <strong>rollout voice, SMS only recharge plans alongside the existing bundle data recharge pack<\/strong>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes after TRAI proposed splitting voice, SMS and data packs back in July this year, following a consumer survey that found that bundled recharge plans in the market today (which include calling, SMS, data, and streaming services) make them pay for services that they are not using. TRAI said that it believes in providing an option to telecom customers who do not want to use data or streaming services. <strong>Users can now recharge only voice pack, SMS pack, or data pack separatly.<\/strong> <\/p><div class='code-block code-block-9' style='margin: 8px auto 8px 0; text-align: left; display: block; clear: both;'>\n<!-- OnlHeaderResponsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5339207343588395\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9406207027\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main <strong>benefit<\/strong> is for 2G users in India who only want to use voice pack for calling or SMS pack for sending text and do not want access to the internet services. Also, many users switched to BSNL from Jio and Airtel when they hiked their data pack prices. Though the bundled data pack which includes unlimited calling, SMS, data and streaming OTT platforms in one pack seems to benefit data users, there are lakhs of customers who only need voice pack or text. This new mandate of separating voice and SMS pack from bundle data plan will help telecom customers to save on unnecessary spending on high priced data plans. Now smartphone or feature phone users in India can take advantage to choose low priced recharge pack they want to recharge and spend less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve seen people spending 200 INR a month for keeping their incoming and outgoing services on the phone. Whereas, from now on a minimum recharge of INR 10 a month will be sufficient to keep the plan active. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tags: #india #trai #telecom #airtel #jio #vi #bsnl #recharge #pack #data #voice #sms<\/p>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAI asks to roll out voice, sms only recharge plans alongside existing bundle data recharges This is quite beneficial update for phone users in India&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}