RJio Data Tariffs to be ‘Lowest’ in World: Ambani

RJio will offer only 4G services in the world’s second-largest smartphone market, probably from 1 January 2016.

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Ltd. with his wife Nita Ambani and son Akash Ambani arrives for the company’s annual general meeting in Mumbai on Thursday. (Photo Courtesy: PTI) 

Bringing in disruption in the Indian telecom industry, Reliance Industries on Thursday announced free voice calls and roaming services for users, while data would be charged at one-tenth of the prevailing market rates.

RIL’s telecom venture, Reliance Jio will offer 10 monthly plans to customers, starting at Rs 149, in a move that the company believes will bring in “data-giri” as demand for data services boom in the country.

Speaking at the Reliance Industries’ 42th Annual General Meeting, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said data must be “affordable”, adding that Jio’s base rate will be one-tenth of the prevailing data rates.

In our data plans, the effective rates will be Rs 50 per GB...If you use more data, it will go down to Rs 25 per GB.

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries

WHAT THE USERS GET

Rs 149 plan:

• free voice (local and STD)
  
• free roaming
  
• 100 SMS
  
• 0.3 GB of 4G data
  

Rs 4,999 plan:

• 75GB of 4G data
  
• unlimited 4G access at night for 28 days
  

Other plans available for:

• Rs 499
  
• Rs 999
  
• Rs 1,499
  
• Rs 2,499
  
• Rs 3,999
  

All except Rs 149 plan get free & unlimited SMSes, wifi access from JioNet Hotspots

Ambani said existing voice calls are charged at about 65 paise per minute while Jio users would be able to make calls for free.

On the other hand, existing data charges hover around Rs 250 per GB which Jio proposes to bring down to Rs 50 per GB making the tariff the “lowest in the world”.

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(With Inputs from PTI)

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