Following the Supreme Court’s order for re-imposition of taxes on telecom services, mobile phone companies have raised tariffs for their products. The main increase in price has been for fixed priced cards which come with a bundle of SMS/Voice/Data on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis.
Telenor, Zong, Jazz and Ufone were quick to react and increased prices for their weekly, fortnightly and monthly cards as per following:
Monthly Card PricesÂ
| Operator | Card Name | Old Price | New Price | Price Difference | % Change in Price |
| Ufone | Super Card Plus | 599 | 599 | 0 | 0 |
| Ufone | Super Card | 520 | 550 | 30 | 6% |
| Ufone | Mini Super Card | 300 | 330 | 30 | 10% |
| Telenor | Easy Card 450 | 300 | 450 | 150 | 50% |
| Telenor | Easy Card 800 | 600 | 800 | 200 | 33% |
| Zong | Super Card | 500 | 650 | 150 | 30% |
| Jazz | Super Duper | 499 | 600 | 101 | 20% |
Please note that we have outlined monthly cards only. Then there are weekly and fortnightly cards as well, prices for which were also increased.
We expect that this recent wave of a tariff increase on Cards is likely to impact the ARPUs, as these cards are the best selling products for mobile phone companies.
Ufone, for instance, offers most popular Super Card products — and this is also probably why their increment in card prices remained the lowest.
Similarly, prices for some data bundles have also increased. Following are the details:
Revision in Data BundlesÂ
| Operator | Bundle | Old Price | New Price | %Change in Price |
| Ufone | WIP | 150 | 175 | 17% |
| Jazz | Weekly Mega | 160 | 246 | 54% |
| Jazz | Weekly Mega plus | 200 | 312 | 56% |
| Telenor | 4G Weekly Ultra | 160 | 217 | 36% |
| Zong | Super Weekly | 120 | 176 | 46% |
| Zong | Super Weekly Plus | 156 | 228 | 46% |
Besides the re-imposition of taxes, the wave of high inflation was seen on various heads of operations including electricity tariff and petroleum product prices. This factor enhanced the cost of doing business for the operators, and was probably responsible for the decision for increase in card prices was seen.
One could argue that telecom operators could have absorbed the inflationary impact to some extent mainly to retain the growth in the consumption of telephony and mobile broadband services on their networks.
The abrupt hike on the monthly charges by all four operators may slow down the consumption of mobile phone services as customers at large are already burdened with high inflation which is adversely impacting on their purchasing power.
The trend also shows that operators smartly took decisions to revise up the prices of their packages in a way that competition among them may remain at a controlled level.
Everything is increased except “Salary”
Somehow Salary is decreased….
Bitter truth. Because of the sky high rates of inflation our purchasing power keeps getting reduced at an alarming rate every year.
No doubt in it.
Tabdeeli !
Unless you were living in a cave for last 5 years, you would have known these are the prices of last government. Get yourself educated
You seem to be a jerk!
MBB bundled Price have also been increased significantly by Zong and Jazz !
They are Back pn track
Old PAckages have been restored
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Dear Awam,
Parayshaan Na Hoon …..
Next Budget Mai, Barhtii Mehangai Ke Waja Sai,
Arkaan e Parliment Apni Salaries Kudh Barhwa Leein Gaay !
kya chor bazari lagai hui hy companies ne mil kar
Chor to abhi aey hain pehle to chor Kuch karte thay aged chor b thay lakin ye chor Dono hathon se loot rahe hain ayse b kam lo wyse b kama lo swan relief dene ki bajaey in ki pareshaniyan barha di hain
Go Imran Go!
Tabdeeli, my foot.