Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries at the company’s special event announced that Reliance Jio has crossed 100 million customers in 170 days of launch, adding 7 customers every second on average. It has 60,000 Jio employees and over 10 lakh Jio retail partners.
The Chairman said that Jio customers used 200 crore minutes voice and video calls everyday and 100 crore data a month. Jio carries nearly 5.5 crore hours of video daily on its network. He said that Jio has two time more 4G base stations than all Indian operators combined.
Jio is now offering Prime Membership registration at Rs 99/month after the end of ‘Happy New Year offer'. All the existing offers will be carried forward to the end of March 31st, 2018. To celebrate 100 million customers registration under Jio 4g network, company announces another market disrupting tariff plan for 4G subscribers.
Jio customers can now register Jio Prime Membership subscription which further enables Jio users to get access to all existing benefits under ‘Happy New Offer' for another one year.
Jio subscribers can now continue same ‘Happy New Year Offer' just by paying a small amount worth Rs 99 for 1 year of ‘Jio Prime Membership subscription'. Jio Prime 99 put a users under ‘Prime Membership plan‘, otherwise subscribers will automatically converter to general plan and need to opt in any of the existing prepaid or postpaid monthly plans and their add-on packs.
Jio was supposed to get defeated by great rival but new announcement confirmed that company not gonna leave an inch of telecom space to any of existing rivals. Jio announces to offer dynamic tariff plans which means benefits of Jio tariff plans will keep changing with the change in tariff plans of rivals and, benefits will be much bigger compared to rivals.
A day after Jio announced the Prime service and said that it would offer 30GB 4G data for Rs 303, Airtel has sent a notification to its post-paid users that they can get additional 10GB data for Rs 100.Airtel's latest move will mean that postpaid subscribers in India will be able to opt for the additional data benefit by just paying Rs. 100. It's worth mentioning that Airtel postpaid subscribers to avail the 10GB 4G data at just Rs. 100 will need to have a 4G smartphone.
Here are the key points of Jio prime membership
Membership:
Jio Prime membership is limited to the 100 million existing Reliance
Jio users as well as those who join the network before March 31, 2017.
Cost:
All Jio members can enroll prime membership for a one time fee of Rs 99
(which is valid for one year). Additionally, to get the free mobile
data and other benefits, users will need to pay another Rs. 303 per
month for the next 12 months (which amounts to Rs 10 per day,
approximately).
Subscription:
To subscribe, users can go to any Jio store or Jio partner store.
Besides, MyJio app and Jio.com website can also be used.
Commencement: Users can start subscribing to the plan from March 1. It will end on March 31.
Offers:
Under the plan, unlimited mobile data for a year (1GB daily FUP limit),
media and content benefits associated with the Jio apps suite are
available. "There will be many other attractive deals and offers from
both Jio and its partners (for) the Jio Prime members," a statement
released by the company said. Like the current offer, Jio Prime will
also reduce the internet speed to 128kbps after the 1GB data per day
limit is crossed.
Users
who do not subscribe: Reliance Jio users who opt not to subscribe the
Jio Prime membership will have to pay for data and other services, but
not voice calls (including on roaming).
As before, Airtel is likely to offer 4G services in nearly 22 circles in India, and for the other non-4G circles, the company will provide 3G data against this offer. Similar to Airtel's earlier offers, the new "Surprise Offer" may require users to avail the free benefit via the MyAirtel app. The 10GB data is likely to be valid only for 28 days.
The Airtel offer was first reported by India Today Tech, and it added that the "Surprise Offer" by the telecom company will be in addition to an existing plan subscribed by the postpaid customers. Unfortunately, Airtel's offer of 10GB data at just Rs. 100 isn't available to all postpaid users.
This is not the first time when Airtel has bumped the data offering at a minimal price. Last year, Airtel offered up to 10GB data at a price of Rs. 259.
A quick look at the offers provided by Vodafone and Idea:
Vodafone
Vodafone announced seven new 4G plans for prepaid users last month.
The plan starts at Rs 150 for which user gets 1GB of 4G data valid for 30 days. Similarly, 4G services at Rs 250, 4GB data, at Rs 350, 6GB data, at Rs 450, 9GB data, at Rs 650, 13GB data, at Rs 999 Plan 22GB data and Rs 1500 Plan 35GB data are available for 30 days.
Unlike Reliance Jio, there is no daily limit in any of the plans.
Only prepaid customers can avail these plans.
Idea Cellular
It has announced a new plan last month under which it is offering 3GB of additional mobile data to customers who switch to new 4G handsets.
Free data is provided to customers under the new plan will be 3G or 4G, depending on circle and handset. The data will be on 2G in the circles where Idea operates under 3G roaming agreements until 4G is launched.
For existing Idea prepaid 4G handset customers
1GB of data on Rs 348 recharge pack, in addition to unlimited voice calling and SMS is available.
Users who recharge with this pack on a new 4G handset will get additional 3GB data. The benefit is valid for 28 days and can be availed for a maximum of 13 recharges in 365 days.
Idea postpaid customers subscribing to Rs 499 rental plan
Unlimited local, national and incoming roaming calls with 3GB free data on 4G handset will be available.
Non-4G handset users will get unlimited calling benefits and 1GB free data.
Idea postpaid customers with Rs 999 monthly rental plan
Users will get all benefits of Rs 499 plan; besides this, they will be able to make free calls during roaming, get 8GB of mobile broadband on 4G handsets and 5GB data on other handsets.
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