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Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Prepaid New Recharge Plans: The big telecom operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone-Idea have increased the prices across the board for their prepaid plans. Earlier this week, Airtel and Vodafone-Idea were the ones to hike the tariff plans price.
Reliance Jio on Wednesday revealed the revised its ‘All-in-One’ plans. One major change is that while telecos continue to offer more data, they are reducing calling benefits, especially to outside networks and have introduced a Fair Usage Policy (FUP) on such calls. All calls within their own network remain unlimited for now. Let’s take a quick look at the new plans after the price hike and do a quick comparison.
All three plans from Airtel, Jio and Vodafone come with a validity of 28 days. The Rs 129 plan from Jio offers a total of 2GB data and voice calls with FUP up to 1000 minutes. This is for calls to non-Jio networks. Calls to the Jio network remain free and unlimited.
In comparison, Airtel’s 148 and Vodafone-Idea’s 149 plans offer 2GB data. Under the Rs 148 plan, Airtel provides 300 daily SMS and 1,000 minutes of calling to non-Airtel networks and unlimited calls to Airtel numbers.
The 149 Vodafone plan offers 300 SMS and 1,000 minutes of off-net calling, which is calling benefits from Vodafone to other networks like Airtel or Jio or any other. Calls to only Vodafone are unlimited.
The Jio Rs 199, Airtel Rs 248, and Vodafone-Idea Rs 249 plan offers 2GB data every day and validity of 28 days. In total, all three plans offer 56GB data for the validity period. The Jio Rs 199 plan, Vodafone Rs 249 plan, and Airtel Rs 248 plan offer 1,000 off-net minutes or minutes for calls to other networks. Calls within their network remain free. All plans include 100 SMS per day.
Under the Rs 249 plan Jio offers 2GB data every day for a period of 28 days. The plan also offers 1,000 off-net calling minutes and 100 SMS per day.
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Airtel’s Rs 298 plan offers 2GB of daily data benefits along with 100 daily SMS and 1,000 off-net calling minutes for the same validity. Vodafone’s 299 plan offers 2GB of daily data along with 100 SMS per day and 1,000 off-net calling minutes. This one also comes with 28 days of validity.
Under the Rs 349 plan, Reliance Jio offers 3GB of daily data and 1000 minutes off-net calls. In comparison, Airtel Rs 398 plan offers 1000 minutes of off-net calls and 3GB of daily data. The Vodafone Rs 399 plan provides similar value as Jio and Airtel such as 3GB of daily data and 1000 minutes off-net calls. All three plans come with a validity of 28 days and 100 SMS per day.
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The Jio Rs 329 and Vodafone Rs 379 plan offers 6GB data and 3000 minutes of off-net calling for a validity period of 84 days.
All three plans come with a validity of 84 days. The Jio Rs 555 plan offers 1.5GB of data every day and 3000 minutes off-net calls (calls from Jio to others). Airtel Rs 598 plan offers 3000 minutes off-net calls and 1.5GB of daily data benefit. Vodafone’s Rs 599 plan offers 1.5GB of daily data and 3000 minutes off-net calls. Once again all plans have 100 SMS per day as part of the offer.
All three plan comes with a validity of 84 days. The Jio Rs 599 plan offers 2GB data per day and 3000 minutes off-net calls (calls from Jio to others). In comparison, Airtel offers 2GB of daily data along with 100 daily SMS and 3000 minutes off-net calls. Vodafone’s Rs 699 plan offers 2GB of 4G data per day, 100 daily SMS and 3,000 minutes off-net voice calls.
These are annual tariff plans. Under the Jio Rs 1,299 plan users get a total of 24GB data and 12,000 minutes off-net calls for a period of 365 days. In comparison, Airtel’s Rs 1,498 plan provides 24GB of total data along with 3,600 SMS and 12,000 minutes off-net calls.
Vodafone’s Rs 1,499 plan offers 24GB of data and 3,600 SMS coupled with 12,000 minutes of calling to other networks.
Both these Jio and Airtel plans come with a validity of 365 days. Under the Jio Rs 2,199 plan subscribers get 1.5 GB per day and 12,000 minutes off-net calls. Airtel’s Rs 2,398 plan also offers 1.5GB data and 12,000 minutes worth of off-net calls.
The new plans from Airtel and Vodafone-Idea are already available, while the revised all-in-one plans from Jio will come into effect starting December 6.
