  In India, telecom operators - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have increased the mobile internet rates by up to 100% during June-September 2014 across the country, Reports PTI.
Airtel is latest to increase mobile internet rates by up to 33% while Vodafone and Idea have started gradually implementing the hiked mobile internet rates from June.
The three companies jointly hold around 57% of the mobile services market share.
Vodafone and Idea Cellular increased rack rate, which is charged without any offer or scheme, by up to 100% from 2 paise per 10 kb of data usage to 4 paise per 10 kb.
The 2G data pack rate of Airtel is highest among the three at 10 paise per 10 kb which means cost of 1GB mobile internet usage without any scheme or offer for a subscriber is over Rs. 10,000 which company is now selling for Rs. 176. |