Reliance Jio, a sensation in the telecom industry that provided various free unlimited services will now be charging for their services from April 1st. But these charges can be reduced if the users subscribe to the Reliance Jio Prime Plan. The subscriptions for this plan have begun from the first of March and will end on the 31st of March 2017 and will be charged at Rs. 99.
These plans differ from prepaid to the postpaid usage. For prepaid plans the options of recharge start from Rs.11 and go upwards. According to the Reliance Jio website, if someone doesn’t want to join Prime, “If you have not recharged with any plan, your services will stop. You will be able to get incoming voice calls and SMS for certain period.” It also has to be noted that all the domestic voice calls to all operators are free in every plan and only charges will be limits on the SMS and Data usage.
Prepaid can avail the following plans:
Rs. 19 (1-day validity):
For Prime users, unlimited SMS and 200 MB 4G data.
For Non-Prime users, the 4G data gets reduced to 100 MB.
Rs. 49 (3-day validity):
For Prime, unlimited SMS, 600 MB 4G data;
Non-Prime data gets lowered to 300 MB.
Rs. 96 (7-day validity):
Prime Users, Free SMS and 7 GB 4G data with FUP (Fair Usage Policy) at 1 GB per day
Non-Prime users, data limited to 0.6 GB with FUP at 0.6 GB per day for non-Prime.
Rs. 149 (28-day validity):
Prime Users 100 SMS and 2 GB 4G data
Non-Prime users 1 GB 4G data with 100 SMS.
Rs. 303 (28-day validity):
Prime Users Unlimited SMS with 28 GB data at 1 GB per day FUP
Non-Prime users data lowered to 2.5 GB.
Rs. 499 (28-day validity):
Prime users get free SMS with 56 GB data at 2 GB per day FUP
Non-Prime users data limit reduced to 5 GB.
Rs. 999:
Prime Users can avail a Validity of 60 days, free SMS with 60 GB data with no FUP
For Non-Prime users, the data limit has been lowered to 12.5 GB with a validity of 30 days.
Rs. 1,999:
Prime users get an unlimited SMS usage with 125 GB data and 90-day validity
For Non-Prime users data limit is lowered to 30 GB with a validity of 30-day.
Rs. 4,999:
Prime users get a Validity of 180-day with 350 GB data, free SMS
For Non-Prime users, the data limit is reduced to 100 GB with 30-day validity.
Rs. 9,999:
Prime users get 360-day validity of 750 GB data, unlimited SMS
For Non-Prime users, the data is reduced to 200 GB with 30-day validity.
Booster packs:
Rs. 11 for 0.1 GB,
Rs. 51 for 1 GB,
Rs. 91 for 2 GB,
Rs. 201 for 5 GB and
Rs. 301 for 10 GB
Top-ups: These provide monetary value in your core account that can be used to make international calls and SMS.
Rs. 10: Talktime of Rs. 7.7,
Rs. 20: Talktime of Rs. 15.39 and
Rs. 50: Talktime of Rs. 40.48.
Plans for the postpaid users are as following:
Rs. 303:
Free SMS with 30 GB 4G data at 1 GB per day FUP for Prime users;
Non-Prime users data limit reduced to 2.5 GB.
Rs. 499:
60 GB data at 2 GB per day FUP, free SMS for Prime;
Non-Prime data limit lowered at 5 GB.
Rs. 999:
Prime users get Free SMS with 60 GB data
Non-prime users avail data limit gets reduced to 12.5 GB.
Booster packs:
Rs. 51 for 1 GB,
Rs. 91 for 2 GB,
Rs. 201 for 5 GB and
Rs. 301 for 10 GB.
Based on these plans, both the Prepaid and Postpaid users will have profits despite their Prime subscription or failing to do it.
