New Delhi: In a major setback for the telecom industry, about 6 crore people in the next 6 months are going to say 'goodbye' to their mobile connections. As per the report by the Economic Times, the evolving the consumer's behaviour suggested that people are now preferring only one SIM card instead of having two of them in their mobile devices. Therefore, now the consumers might give away multiple SIM cards connection in coming 6 months.

ET quoted COAI Director General Rajan Mathew as saying that there will be a 25-30 million drop in subscriber numbers in the next six months.

Why will people prefer 'single SIM' card?

According to the report, the industry executives and analysts have said that with the market leader Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel introducing the minimum recharge plans and bringing them almost at par with the latest entrant Reliance Jio’s minimum tariff plan, the people will be further pushed to choose one of the three.

Hemant M Joshi, partner, technology, media and telecommunications, at Deloitte India was quoted by ET as saying that the customers used dual SIMs to take advantage of difference in price points and quality of services across geographies. Now that both price and service quality are similar across operators, need for multiple connections is no longer critical, he added.