All new customers buying Reliance Jio SIM cards will be able to avail free 4G data (capped at 1GB per day), free voice/video calls, and access to bouquet of Jio apps up till 31st March 2017, Reliance Industry Limited’s Chairman Mukesh Ambani said in a statement today. Existing Jio users will automatically receive the extended promotional offer. After 1GB of usage, speeds will be throttled down to 128 Kbps. Once the user exhausts the 1GB data limit, they can make the recharges at offline stores, distributors, or online via Jio Money Wallet app. The tariffs are now updated separately for prepaid and postpaid customers. Below are screen shots of basic plans, more details here. Basic Prepaid plans: Basic Postpaid Plans: On Jio Money Wallet rollout Ambani claimed that the Jio Money wallet is on-boarding 10 million offline retailers and merchants including small shop owners, mandis, kirana stores, railway counters, etc. across 17,000 towns, 4 lakh villages it operates in. Starting 5th December, any merchant across the country can download and install a separate “Jio Money Merchant app” to receive payments from Jio Money Wallet users. Users can also send and load money from their bank accounts onto Jio Money. On Interconnection issue and call failures “We have not received the required support from our existing operators. In the last 3 months, more than 900 crore calls were blocked while interconnecting with the 3 largest operators,” Ambani said. Terming this "anti-competitive", Ambani claimed that this has restricted the company from providing good…
