Mobile price wars as Indian tycoon pledges free 4G

Sep 18, 2016, 01:31
Mobile price wars as Indian tycoon pledges free 4G

More cuts from competitors: Telcos had slashed effective data prices by nearly 70 per cent recently with Airtel offering voice free for higher-paying users.

Therefore, together with Jio-to-Jio calls, an average Jio customer can be expected to make around 3000-4000 minutes of calls per month or 100-133 minutes (2 hours) of outgoing calls per day - compared to about 6 minutes for other networks at present.

Almost 20 brands including Sony, Sansui, Videocon, LG, Samsung, Micromax, Panasonic, Asus, TCL, Alcatel, HTC, Intex, Vivo, Gionee, Karbonn and Lava were part of the preview offer which provided free 90-day unlimited calls and high-speed mobile broadband trials to 4G smartphone users of these brands.

Engineering student Arun Sathiya, who was among those who got a connection two weeks ago during a preview period, said he was "really happy" with the offers but was still testing the quality of the service.

"We expect Bharti Airtel's operating performance to weaken because of competitive data tariffs and free voice calls", S&P said, adding that it expects revenue growth for the company's domestic business to decline to below 5% during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018 and 2019, from 10% in fiscal 2016.

"The volume of calls will start congesting network and in that case, telecom operators will start losing 43-46 paise per call if their existing customer is unable to connect an outgoing call due to an incoming call from Jio network".

Reliance Jio's full-fledged 4G services available to all from tomorrow

With wide availability across the nation, the Reliance Digital stores across the country saw a surge in footfall for Jio SIM.

The world's largest 4G network has gone live across India under Reliance Jio.

Jio, part of Reliance Industries, will initially be offering voice and data free to new customers, until the end of the year when data caps will be introduced.

The ruckus ensued after Jio owner, Mukesh Ambani (who also happens to be India's richest man), made the game changing promise to India's 1.2 billion people that all data, voice calls, and messages will be free to anyone who has their sim card. No more free internet. Whereas with Vodafone, in case 4G is weak or is not available in a place, you will still enjoy the services on 2G/3G network.

RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani had also appealed to incumbent operators not to prevent their customers to port to Jio. The second plan is of Rs 499 with the benefits of 4GB 4G data along with unlimited night usage and 8GB JioNet WiFi Hotspot access.

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