Vodafone India announced that 2G and 3G tariffs will converge in the near future
Tariffs for second generation (2G) and third generation (3G) data services are likely to converge over time as mobile phone companies could raise prices for 2G data offerings, having lowered 3G data prices in the recent past, a senior executive from Vodafone India said.
As per the company, when it launched 3G services in 2010-11, the 3G tariffs were 6-7 times higher than 2G but this difference has now been reduced to just 1.5 times.
The company, which has around 25.7 percent revenue market share in Delhi and NCR, has over 4,000 3G sites in the region.
The company has around 92 lakh users in Delhi and NCR and only around 1/8 of them use 3G currently. The 3G data users are growing at over 100 percent on year on year basis.
“We brought down the 3G data prices around four months back and we except 2G and 3G prices will converge in near future,” Vodafone India Business Head (Delhi) Subrat Padhi said in New Delhi.
He said the convergence will take place either by an increase in 2G rates or decrease in 3G rates while asserting that there is little scope for further cut in data rates. “The data prices in India are already one of the lowest in the world,” he said.
