Mukesh Ambani on Thursday broke open the widely-awaited details of his Reliance Jio venture, billed as the country’s largest 4G network. At the company’s 42nd AGM today, announced that Jio will be available for all from September 5th. Unlike the Preview Offer that was available till now for selected smartphone partners, now, everyone can get the Jio SIM and use all the Jio services for free till the end of the year. As a part of Jio welcome offer, all the users get free unlimited Data, Voice, Video and the full bouquet of Jio applications and content till December 31st 2016.
Jio has also detailed its plans. Plans start at INR 149 and goes up to INR 4,999. Expert the base plan, other plans include unlimited 4G data at night and unlimited local and national SMS. All the plans will include free unlimited local and STD voice calls and roaming across India. These are all pre-paid tariffs, and Jio has not revealed its post-paid plans.
The highlights of the plans include,
- Unlimited 4G data at Night
- Free Voice calling across the country
- Zero roaming charges
- Students will get 25% more data benefit
- No Blackout on messages during public holidays/festivals.
- No roaming charges across the country
- 10 tariff plans starting at Rs 19 a day for occasional users
Jio is not just restricting itself to the Mobile internet services and will also be rolling out a fibre to home wireline network at select cities with speeds of up to 1GB/s.
