In a head-to-head attempt to garner the highest number of active subscribers and make them stay, telcos Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are rolling out different offers for their users.
The Mumbai-based telco, Reliance Jio has rolled out a new service for its customers, which allows them to use high speed instant data and pay for the same later.
This means it will be like a loan pack.
Jio’s prepaid subscribers will be able to make use of a total of 5GB data, as bundles of 1GB packs.
Reliance Jio’s Emergency Data Loan
Reliance Jio Infocomm has introduced a new data pack service to its prepaid customers, which provides them with instant high-speed, which they can pay for later.
Called the ‘Emergency Data Loan’, the latest offering by Jio comes at a time when its rival Bharti Airtel is launching different services for its customers, which are attracting many Jio users too.
Under the Emergency Data Loan service, prepaid customers with an existing base plan can get up to five data loan packs of 1GB each, amounting to 5GB in total.
This means, users who have exhausted their existing data pack before its validity expires can choose to use this service and pay for the additional data used later.
Each of the 1GB loan packs of the total 5GB, is priced at Rs 11/pack. The added data pack will be valid until the existing base pack is valid.
Please note that in order to avail the facility, one must have an existing base plan active.
“Emergency data loan facility provides flexibility of ‘Recharge Now and Pay Later’ functionality to Jio users who run out of their high speed daily data quota and are unable to recharge immediately”, said a source.
Jio targets a total subscriber base of 500 million, through this service.
Users can make use of this data pack service through the My Jio app.