Airtel launches new postpaid plans and changed current postpaid plans offering

[Advik]

Only Vi had unlimited plans at 699 with 2TB cap. But hardly anyone crossed 500GB usage with 100Mbps cap. They had four sims with 1599 plans with everything unlimited as well. But that plan is withdrawn now in many circles. Businessman used to have those plans. Now they are pissed off.

Yeah bro I know about Vi, Currently using Vi RedX Plan with unlimited data and OTT Subscriptions. Happy with Vi

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

Yeah bro I know about Vi, Currently using Vi RedX Plan with unlimited data and OTT Subscriptions. Happy with Vi

Location? Device? They have cap of speeds? 699 plan? In Mumbai circle, since last 10 days they have cap of 21Mbps on this plan. Some plans have cap of 100Mbps. Some are totally uncapped.

 

[Harsha1996]

5G from Airtel will take two years atleast as they are going to loose lot from upcoming tariff hikes. Jio might cover few metros and towns by Next year end, but Airtel can't cover. 4G and 4G+ is way to go in future for one year atleast.

Even 4g also the plan worth the cost... No daily data caps + rollover data... And postpaid plans are stable they won't change easily... Like prepaid ones prepaid tariff hike is around the corner ... Which will surely touch 300 for 1.5 per day 28day plan officially...

Maybe airtel will hike prepaid traiff before the end of the year... To attract more postpaid subs.

 

[saketk11]

Airtel launches multiple postpaid plans with bundling Of postpaid + dth,
Postpaid +fiber,
Postpaid + fiber+dth

And also increased free sim add on every family plan
999 plan, 1199 plan-
2family add-ons(previously) to 3free add-ons
1499 plan - 3add-ons(previously) 4add-ons

If i remeber correctly during july-sep2021, these plan were reduced with benefit

999and 1499 before june2021 were having additional 3and 4 child connection but different pool data.

In simple words Airtel roll back postpaid hike (indrect) to gain both High ARPU user from each sim and attract high end prepaid and competitor's postpaid under their umbrella airtel black plans

Even 4g also the plan worth the cost... No daily data caps + rollover data... And postpaid plans are stable they won't change easily... Like prepaid ones prepaid tariff hike is around the corner ... Which will surely touch 300 for 1.5 per day 28day plan officially...

Maybe airtel will hike prepaid traiff before the end of the year... To attract more postpaid subs.

5G is all about higher data usage on move, and prepaid bucket plans created/mastered by JIO wont work
thus only option is to more lumpsum plans to prospective 5g users by making them sticky with such reasonably prices Postpaid plans.
even recetly TRAI and allowed prepaid to postpaid with just OTP based methods

 

[Advik]

Location? Device? They have cap of speeds? 699 plan? In Mumbai circle, since last 10 days they have cap of 21Mbps on this plan. Some plans have cap of 100Mbps. Some are totally uncapped.

Currently Im getting 32mbps speed. My plan is 1099 + Tax. Location - Kalyan Mumbai.
Device - iphone 12 and S22+.

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

Currently Im getting 32mbps speed. My plan is 1099 + Tax. Location - Kalyan Mumbai.
Device - iphone 12 and S22+.

Speeds are very poor for the devices are using.

 

[Advik]

Speeds are very poor for the devices are using.

Im happy with that. No issue with speed. Fire TV Stick working very nicely with this speeed on my tv

 

[kanagadeepan]

Too little, Too late. Airtel is now showing sudden love to Postpaid customers, mainly because silently Jio has started eating their (as well as of course VoId's) Postpaid share. Or may be afraid of Postpaid customers moving to Jio's true 5G.

For example:- In my case, Airtel used to provide one non-data UL calls plan for Rs125 and another plan with 30GB for Rs249. Last year, they abruptly stopped those plans and moved all of them to Rs299 plan with same 30GB data. Even after many e-mails and calls, asking Rs249 plan (with even NO data) for those Rs125 plan users (our staff), they outright rejected. So we ported those numbers to Jio Postpaid (Rs199 - 25GB + UL calls).

Jio is now using that 199 plan to catch those postpaid customers. Now Airtel is feeling the heat, as the data speed of Jio has increased a lot recently.

For those looking to go for Airtel Family plan, kindly go through the T&C. It is a trap. Once your numbers are grouped to form family plan, you can't port out in simple way. You have to downgrade to normal postpaid or prepaid plan and then only you can move to other network. REMEMBER, they will allow you to change to postpaid via OTP on same sim, but when you want to downgrade to regular postpaid or prepaid (for porting out), they will say, "Sorry sir... There is something wrong in our system. You may need to change by filling CAF" -- BOOM, then you have to again wait for 3 more months to port out.

Reliance as well as Airtel (Corporate) Postpaid has earlier followed the policy of "NOT moving a customer forcibly from a recently removed tariff plan". But last year, Airtel just said, "We don't have such policy" and forcibly moved customers to higher value plan. Thankfully Jio is still following the policy. In our home town, Airtel lost 50% of their Corporate postpaid connections, due to that policy change mostly (85%) to Airtel Prepaid though.

If you want bulk data, go for Annual recharges + 4G bulk data vouchers (Rs300 - 50GB) in prepaid.

If you need Postpaid bill for redemptions, just go for Jio Rs199 postpaid plan. Even in postpaid plans, Jio lets you to make add on recharges for more usage.

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Yeah, everybody knows that Postpaid (especially Corporate) customers are 100 times stickier than Prepaid customers. But once they left, it will be 1000 times difficult to regain them, imho. So these "throwing bones to dog" style tariff reversals may NOT work well for Corporate customers. Retail Postpaid is a different story, though.

 

[Shivpatel]

I have 3 Jio prepaid SIM card and thinking for postpaid family plan..

Which telco has best family postpaid plan…should I go for Airtel or Jio.?

 

[Harsha1996]

Too little, Too late. Airtel is now showing sudden love to Postpaid customers, mainly because silently Jio has started eating their (as well as of course VoId's) Postpaid share. Or may be afraid of Postpaid customers moving to Jio's true 5G.

For example:- In my case, Airtel used to provide one non-data UL calls plan for Rs125 and another plan with 30GB for Rs249. Last year, they abruptly stopped those plans and moved all of them to Rs299 plan with same 30GB data. Even after many e-mails and calls, asking Rs249 plan (with even NO data) for those Rs125 plan users (our staff), they outright rejected. So we ported those numbers to Jio Postpaid (Rs199 - 25GB + UL calls).

Jio is now using that 199 plan to catch those postpaid customers. Now Airtel is feeling the heat, as the data speed of Jio has increased a lot recently.

For those looking to go for Airtel Family plan, kindly go through the T&C. It is a trap. Once your numbers are grouped to form family plan, you can't port out in simple way. You have to downgrade to normal postpaid or prepaid plan and then only you can move to other network. REMEMBER, they will allow you to change to postpaid via OTP on same sim, but when you want to downgrade to regular postpaid or prepaid (for porting out), they will say, "Sorry sir... There is something wrong in our system. You may need to change by filling CAF" -- BOOM, then you have to again wait for 3 more months to port out.

Reliance as well as Airtel (Corporate) Postpaid has earlier followed the policy of "NOT moving a customer forcibly from a recently removed tariff plan". But last year, Airtel just said, "We don't have such policy" and forcibly moved customers to higher value plan. Thankfully Jio is still following the policy. In our home town, Airtel lost 50% of their Corporate postpaid connections, due to that policy change mostly (85%) to Airtel Prepaid though.

If you want bulk data, go for Annual recharges + 4G bulk data vouchers (Rs300 - 50GB) in prepaid.

If you need Postpaid bill for redemptions, just go for Jio Rs199 postpaid plan. Even in postpaid plans, Jio lets you to make add on recharges for more usage.

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Yeah, everybody knows that Postpaid (especially Corporate) customers are 100 times stickier than Prepaid customers. But once they left, it will be 1000 times difficult to regain them, imho. So these "throwing bones to dog" style tariff reversals may NOT work well for Corporate customers. Retail Postpaid is a different story, though.

Actually moving to airtel postpaid is difficult they still not providing otp based conversion we need to visit store or person kyc is needed...
But downgrading can be done through otp of course we need to wait 90days for porting out..