Airtel, Vodafone Idea announce additional data, discounts for IPL season

For all prepaid customers, Airtel has reduced the price of its existing unlimited data pack plans from Rs. 49 to Rs. 29

(This report has been updated)

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) have announced a host of discounts, tariff changes, and additional data offerings for prepaid users for the Indian Premier League 2024 season, which began on Friday.

While Airtel has targeted the lower end of the market by revising its existing unlimited data pack plans of Rs 49 and Rs 99, Vi has announced a range of discounts and data offerings across different pricing tiers.

“The IPL season always sees new plans. But with the advent of 5G, data usage of users is also going up. The latest packages are a reflection of that,” a telco official said.

For all prepaid customers, Airtel has cut the price of its existing unlimited data pack plans of Rs 49 to Rs 29, while the Rs 99 pack will now cost Rs 79. Both will have a fair use policy based data usage limit of 20 GB/day. Airtel Digital TV has also partnered with StarSports to broadcast the IPL.

Vi has targeted the higher end of the market, providing additional data on select prepaid recharge plans going up to Rs 3199. The telco is also offering 50 per cent extra daily data on the Rs 181 pack and 25 per cent more data on the Rs 75 pack, up to a limit of 1.5 GB/day.

It has also cut the price of several prepaid plans by announcing flat Rs.50-100 discounts on plans ranging from Rs 699 to Rs 3,199, for the duration of the IPL season. Offered exclusively through the Vi app, the offers will run till April 1, 2024, the company said. 

IPL offers

Recharge Plans	Additional data	Data Limit & Validity
Vodafone Idea
Rs 1449	30 GB	1.5GB/ day + 180 days
Rs 2899	50 GB	1.5GB/day + 365 days
Rs 3099	50 GB	2GB/ day + 365 days
Rs 3199	50 GB	2GB/ day + 365 days
Bharti Airtel
Rs. 39	N/A	Unlimited + 1 Day
Rs. 79	N/A	Unlimited + 2 Days

Source : Vi, Airtel