Reliance Jio Launches Rs 251 Prepaid Plan With 2GB Daily Data

Reliance Jio has launched a new prepaid recharge program that offers 2GB of daily information for 51 days. Being marketed as the 'Jio Cricket Pack', the new program is an STV (Special Tariff Voucher) that offers only data benefits without any free vocalism calls and SMSes. While the company already offers some of the nigh lucrative data plans in the market, the new STV brings down its data prices further by offering 1GB of high-speed data at just Rs. 2.46.

While the pack does bring some much-needed boosted data for heavy users at an affordable price-betoken, the recent tariff increases across the sector have striking users difficult, with all three leading operators – Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea – increasing their charges by up to twoscore pct. The move spelt the end of the ultra-low pricing regime that was ushered in by Reliance Jio when it entered the Indian market with dirt-inexpensive mobile data and free vox calling back in 2014-fifteen.

It volition be interesting to encounter how the new development volition event the telecom industry, given that both of the other ii leading players in the manufacture take long been lament about Jio's ultra-cheap plans and how that has been affecting their business in the state. In fact, faced with the continuing onslaught from Jio and a massive tax bill from the Indian authorities, British telecom behemothic, Vodafone, is reportedly looking to get out the Indian market.

While the contempo price hikes were expected to bring some caste of stability to the market, the latest move from Jio over again throws the cat amid the pigeons, so it volition be interesting to come across how its rivals will answer in the coming days.