Reliance Jio Hikes Tariff For Popular 84-Day Plan
Reliance Jio reduced recharge tariff for the lower denomination and short-term plans.
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. customers will have to pay 15 percent more for its popular 84-day plan at Rs 459 from October 19, under which subscribers will get 1 giga-byte 4G data per day, according to information published on the company's website.
The Mukesh Ambani-backed operator has also reduced recharge tariff for lower denomination and short-term plans besides offering data benefits under the schemes.
However, subscribers of Rs 149 plan will get 4 GB of data for each billing cycle of 28 days under the new “Diwali Dhamaka” scheme compared to 2 GB being offered at present.
Jio has also introduced a smaller plan for Rs 52 with one-week validity and Rs 98 for 2 weeks where customers get free voice, SMS and 0.15 GB data daily.
Jio's revised plans comes within days of it reporting an operational profit for the July-September quarter. It took Jio just three months of commercial operations to do that. Jio earned more average revenue per user than any other operator including market leader Bharti Airtel Ltd.
All plans of Jio will continue to offer unlimited voice calls even during roaming.
- The company has also reduced benefit under Rs 509 scheme, which offers 2 GB of data per day, by reducing its validity or billing cycle from 56 days to 49. Under this plan, data cost will be Rs 5.2 per GB.
- The Rs 999 plan which offered 90 GB of 4G data without cut in download speed will now offer 60 GB at high speed data for 3 months.
- Jio has introduced Rs 1,999 plan which will have six months validity and offer 125 GB data at unrestricted high speed.
- The validity of plan priced at Rs 4,999 will be for a year instead of 210 days under the previous scheme. However, customers opting for it will get unrestricted access to 350 GB high speed data for the plan period compared to 380 GB offered earlier for same price.