The Preview Offer is now gone and now, it is the Free Welcome Offer from Jio. Ambani announced that “Pay for only one service – either voice or data, not both”. Moreover, the 4G service will be free for the first 90 days. Also, there are no roaming charges as well, so wherever you are in India, you can call anyone, any time, for free.
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Ambani said his aim was to get about 100 million customers as early as possible. The promise of a never before pricing for data and free voice calls, something the Indian market hasn’t witnessed before, had already piqued user’s interest.
On the other hand, existing data charges hover around Rs 250 per GB which Jio proposes to bring down to Rs 50 per GB making the tariff the “lowest in the world”.
Ambani also announced a “free welcome offer” for Jio customers from September 5 till December 31. However, he declined to state what will happen to the apps after that. Reliance Jio still had many surprises under its sleeve. Initially, the service was limited to employees and for those who purchase a Lyf smartphone.
Reliance Jio 4G services are finally here. He said ‘Reliance Jio venture is dedicated to PM Modi’s vision for Digital India and it sure does. Moreover, data is the oxygen of digital life. “Jio’s mission is to meet this exploding need, to go from data shortage to data abundance”. Jio also given its detail plans.
The rates have been fixed based on the current market conditions. “Telecom operators not only have legal obligation to provide points of interconnect to other operators, but also can’t limit customers’ right to migrate to Jio using Mobile Number Portability”, he said. Incumbent telcos like Airtel have been trying out some variants of “free” voice, but since this is bundled with pretty expensive data, that is a deterrent.
Reliance Jio today announced free voice calls and free national roaming along with rock-bottom data prices on his new Reliance Jio network.
On top of this, Jio is offering a 25 per cent more data on all data plans for students. You just have to visit any store where the SIMs are available and get the SIM card by submitting the documents. The company made Jio a significant push in the 4G telecom sector in the country.
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With RJio talking of a library of 10 million songs, 6,000 movies, 60,000 music videos and 1 lakh episodes of TV shows in 10 languages, apart from 300 live TV channels, telecom has gone way beyond the dumb-pipe era.
