Vodafone 3G plans currently begin from Rs twenty five for twenty five MB knowledge usage and go up to Rs one,599 for twelve GB knowledge usage. beneath the pay-as-you-go for pre-paid customers, the speed has been cut by eighty per cent to a pair of paise per 10kb. With reduction in tariffs, Vodafone additionally announced there'll be no further charges for roaming on knowledge usage. "Additionally, Vodafone can
currently permit its customers to use knowledge from their bundle package whereas on-net roaming across any location in India with none further charge," a corporation statement said.
Last month, Bharti Airtel, plan Cellular and Reliance Communications had reduced tariffs for its third generation (3G) high speed net services.
"With the introduction of those plans, we have a tendency to aim at establishing a foundation for providing a 3G knowledge set up for everybody, creating it cheap to the plenty within the country," Vodafone India Chief business Officer Sanjoy Mukerji said in an exceedingly statement.
The 3G tariff war is occurring at a time when most of the operators are up in arms against the high reserve worth of spectrum proposed by sectoral regulators Trai. the govt. is probably going to require a choice on spectrum worth within the Empowered cluster of Ministers meeting on July twenty one.
The operators have warned that mobile bills may increase by up to one hundred per cent in bound circles if the proposals are accepted. per trade consultants, the worth war in 3G tariffs is also an endeavor to money huge investments created by telecom operators.
The government had received over Rs sixty seven,000 crore from the 3G auctions held in 2010. With operators taking huge loans to buy the 3G licences, consultants say operators are harassed to recover the investment.
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