Airtel going to increase GPRS charges

Bharti Airtel Hikes GPRS – Mobile Office Tariff By 150 Percent. India’ s largest Mobile Service operator
and Global global
telecommunications
company Bharti Airtel, today
revised its default GPRS
charges and have hiked Internet browsing tariff by more than
150% !.
Interestingly this time no price
drop,
rather Airtel hikes up the 2G
GPRS/EDGE browsing charges. Now Airtel GPRS/Mobile Office
users willbe charged at 30p/20KB
pulse rate(existing rate is 30p/50KB) In other words, now a Airtel
GPRS
customer will have to pay around
Rs.15/MB in stead of the existing
rate Rs 6/MB. The new tariff will be applicable
from
5th January 2010. This change in
tariff does not impact on new
postpaid and prepaid subscribers
who enroll any tariff plan in last 6 months as per TRAI rules. All
such customers upon completion
of 6
months on their existing plan will
be charged as per above revised
mobile Internet browsing tariff. Airtel also announced that from
28th December its “ Airtel Live” GPRS/WAP Mobile Portal browsing
will be charged at the rate of
30p/20KB which was earlier free
of charge. With the hike in 2G GPRS-Mobile
Internet tariff, it seems that
Bharti
Airtel threw water over its
mobile
users who had hopes of “ cheap tariff” for upcoming 3G Mobile and Data
services which is expected in
January 2010.