Reliance Jio may delight customers and stun rivals with data tariffs at 0.5 paisa/10 kb

Whatever Reliance Jio is up to, it will surely leave an impact on its rivals such as Airtel, Idea and Vodafone. In a new development, Reliance Jio Infocomm is planning to offer 0.5 paisa per 10 kb of data usage.

This is way lower than the 4 paise per 10 Kb data being charged by Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular.

As per ET, SIM card kits at Reliance Digital Xpress stores across Delhi, Jio had kept local and STD call at 2 paisa per second and 5 paisa per second for a video call.

These tariffs on the SIM kit are base are different from data packs available in the market.

"We have received Jio SIM cards but have not got any instructions from the company to sell them to public although the services are open for retail staff only, as a part of network trial," one of the Reliance Digital Xpress store managers in south Delhi told ET.

It is expected that Reliance Jio will do a soft launch later this month.

Rohan Dhamija, partner and head for India and South Asia at telecom consulting firm Analysys Mason, told ET, “However, it (Jio's cost per GB) wouldn't be that much lower that it can support this kind of tariff. If this 0.5 paisa per 10 Kb tariff is accurate, then it is probably a promotional introductory tariff.”

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