“We have price points starting from Rs 19 for the occasional data user, to a monthly rate of Rs 149 plan for the light data user and all the way up to a monthly Rs 4,999 plan for the heaviest data user”, Ambani said.
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Reliance Jio has been offering limited services to employees and select customers since late 2015, and throughout this year has gradually extended the trial’s scope and scale. The service is welcome by all as it comes with free voice calls and a tenth of 4G charges as compared to the competitors.
After December, Jio customers will get all domestic voice calls, including roaming for free. On the Sixth day, your old number will be activated with the Reliance Jio Sim card. Idea’s 2GB data is now priced at just Rs. 349, as against the earlier price of Rs. 449. 50 Rupees, or $0.75, per gigabyte of data.
Bharti Airtel shares fell nearly 1.50 percent on Friday to touch a low of Rs. 306.50 before recovering to trade with minor gains at Rs. 311.50.
Jio, on Friday, also announced that all existing test users will transition to the Jio welcome offer from Sep 5.
“This announcement will unleash a price war among telcos, and users can expect cost of data (not voice) going down in the range of 25 35 per cent”, Greyhound Research Chief Analyst and CEO, Sanchit Gogia pointed out. “They will be less anxious about data consumption and charges and will be more inclined to consume the content they enjoy”, he 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”. RIL chairperson Mukesh Ambani dedicated the Reliance Jio 4G services to the nation and also called it a step in fulfilling the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of making India Digital. Free access to Jio apps subscriptions worth Rs 1250.
He also added that data must be affordable for all users. Jio makes India the highest quality, lowest data rates country in the world.
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Yes, even you would see the data download speed falling down to 128kbps once the 4GB usage for the day is done.
