Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani yesterday announced free voice calling, with zero roaming charges and super-cheap data rates for Jio customers, where R-Jio will offer data services for free for four months.
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RIL’s telecom venture, Reliance Jio will offer 10 monthly plans to customers, starting at Rs 149, in a move that the company believes will trigger a boom in data services. India’s top telecom operator, Airtel in a statement said, “We welcome Reliance Jio’s entry to the digital world and wish them the very best”. Not both. The era of paying for voice calls is ending, he said. It will start offering its services from 5th September 5, 2016 and will commercially get launched at the end of December this year.
“It’s a pain for the existing telecom companies”. He also mentioned that his children Isha and Akash Ambani are directors at Jio.
Reliance Jio 4G plans and tariffs – DATA DOWLOAD AT RS 50/GB: While the initial statement was data is being offered at Rs 50/GB that does not seem to be the case in any of the plans.
With these strategies in place, Jio is certainly setting itself to disrupt the Indian telecom sector and emerge as a major player in the market.
He added that this would translate into a data usage of 250 crore gigabyte per month.
Reliance Jio (live on) is an upcoming provider of mobile telephony, broadband services, and digital services in India. Company’s also announced the lowest data plan in the world which is Rs. 50 per GB.
Airtel’s shares fell 6.5%, while Idea dropped 11% and Reliance declined 3% at the close in Mumbai. Here we are providing the simple and easy ways to switch to the Reliance Network.
Telecom operators not only have legal obligations to provide points of interconnect to other operators, but also can not limit customers’ right to migrate to Jio using Mobile Number Portability, he said.
Additionally, there is no relationship between data and voice regarding usage limit.
Idea Cellular tanked 9 per cent to Rs 85 – its 52-week low on BSE. Note: SMS charges are applicable as per the existing mobile operator.
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Jio had 1.5 million customers in its beta tests, Anshuman Thakur, the company’s head of strategy, told reporters July 15.
