Reliance Jio Offers More Data To Counter Bharti Airtel

Reliance Jio continues to undercut rivals.

Soumeet Sarkar @soumeet_sarkar

12 Jun 2018, 07:19 PM IST

A vendor uses a smartphone while standing next to advertising for Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. at the Nehru Place IT Market in New Delhi. (Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg)

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. continues to undercut rivals.

It will offer more data on its existing tariff plans to counter Bharti Airtel Ltd.’s pricing, Mukesh Ambani’s telecom arm said in a statement. Subscribers can avail the scheme till June 30.

No information on Bharti Airtel’s offer mentioned by Reliance Jio was available on the website of India’s largest operator. BloombergQuint awaits a response to queries emailed to Bharti Airtel.

Reliance Jio will offer 1.5 gigabytes of additional data at the existing price to users who avail the scheme. That reduces the effective cost per GB by 33-50 percent for customers but keeps average revenue per user intact.

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