Reliance Jio, which has officially launched services from 5 September 2016, will offer data services free for four months, after which it will offer 10 tariff plans, starting at INR19 a day for occasional users, INR149 a month for low data users and INR4,999 a month for heavy data users.Reliance Jio is offering customers free voice data under “welcome offer” valid up to December 31 after which users will be given free voice calls for life and data plans at about one-fifth the market prices.
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In 2003, the undivided Reliance had created a storm of kind by announcing monsoon hungama, offering wireless connectivity for an unheard price of Rs 501.
In the speech that found mention of his children, Isha and Akash, who are both the directors on Jio as also his wife, Nita, Ambani did not forget to make a mention of government’s ambitious programmes Digital India, Make in India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ex-Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor said Jio’s future tariff strategy “is contingent on how many quality customers it acquires by January 1” and how soon it’s able to sort out traffic imbalances and reduce potential interconnect payouts to incumbents.
How to get RJio SIM?
Reliance Jio Infocomm is offering unlimited data and premium access to all the Jio apps till the end of the year for all the consumers.
The process of procuring the SIM card is simple and quick.
Reliance Jio claims to be the cheapest LTE provider in the world.
“Rising competition will lead to downward pressure on data tariffs at a time when capital expenditure will have to increase to support rising data consumption as cheaper 4G handsets become available”, Fitch said. “. we have created a Reliance Jio Digital India Startup Fund and are also working to create digital entrepreneurship hubs in key cities and towns in India”.
It said Reliance Jio’s entry will be “credit negative” for the incumbent operators, particularly smaller telcos, and will hasten industry consolidation. “We will continue to do so for our hundreds of million customers across the country”.
Telecom analysts said Reliance Jio has delivered a knockout punch on pricing of voice and data tariffs. Eventually, crippling the recovery the industry has been going through.
Reliance has fired a powerful salvo, it is time to see what Airtel, Vodafone, Idea will offer to keep their customers from abandoning ship. In fact, the tariff plans submitted by Reliance to TRAI states that 50 Rs pricing for 1 GB data is meant for JioNet Wi-Fi service that users can avail when they finish up the data allowance of the plan.
Reliance Industries’ new telecom venture Reliance Jio is all set to begin with a revolution is mobile broadband.
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These are the plans that only offer data benefits when you recharge. However, it added that Jio’s commercial service launch will be the litmus test as it will show the customers that remain on its network, and are willing to pay up, once the freebies expire.
