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Idea cuts data pack tariffs while Airtel increases data amount for prepaid users

Mobile operator Idea Cellular has reduced the tariffs of its prepaid 2G, 3G and 4G internet packs across all circles. Changes that Idea has made: - Idea’s 2G pack for Rs 19 and offering 75MB for 3 days validity will now provide 110MB instead - The 3G/4G pack costing Rs 22 for 65MB of data for 3 days will provide 90MB 3G data for the same validity. Airtel, on the other hand, has increased the data amount in its prepaid data packs: - The 3G/4G pack costing Rs 655 and offering 3GB data will now provide 5GB instead for a month. - The 3G/4G pack for Rs 455 will offer 3GB instead of the previous 2GB, while the Rs 989 pack will offer 10GB instead of the previous 6.5GB. - The 2G sachet pack for Rs 25 will offer 145MB, up 45MB from the previous offer. - The 3G/4G pack for Rs 145 will offer 580MB, as opposed to the previous 440MB. - The 2G pack costing Rs 5 will offer 30MB of data, up from the previous 10-15MB. Airtel’s ‘Happy Hours’ lets prepaid users schedule downloads in 3-5AM Airtel's new ‘Happy Hours’ initiative will let all of its prepaid users “schedule” in-app content downloads from 3-5AM to get 50% of their data back. For example, if a user schedules a 100MB video download in this time, 50MB of data will be credited to their account after 6AM every day. A user can only download MBs within their data pack in…

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