Reliance Jio Offer Plans Where no one exists

At the Reliance Annual General Meeting on Thursday morning, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance, officially announced the launch of Reliance Jio, and said that it was dedicated to realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of digital connectivity for 1.2 billion Indians.

Ambani said,

"Digital Technologies open the doors to this life. Life cannot survive without oxygen; data is the oxygen of digital life. So, supply of oxygen for digital life must never be unaffordable…Jio’s mission is to meet the exploding need of data for India, and to take our nation from data shortage to data abundance."

At Reliance AGM, Mukesh Ambani finally broke the silence on the tariffs for Reliance Jio. The company will not be charging for voice calls at all, and it will charge a tenth of what its competitors are charging for 4G data, Ambani said - it was announced that Jio will charge only 5 paise per MB, or Rs. 50 per GB. What's more, the greater the usage, the lower the cost will be, and the rates could go down to Rs. 25 per GB.

At the AGM, Ambani also announced that Jio services will become available from Monday, September 5, absolutely free as part of the 'Jio welcome offer', so everyone can try Jio's services at no charge.

"Pay for only one service - either voice or data, not both," he said. "World over, operators charge only for data, voice and messaging are essentially free. All voice calls for Jio customers will be absolutely free."

Devoting an hour of his speech at the RIL’s 42th Annual General Meeting, the billionaire industrialist said Jio is targeting 100 million users in a shortest possible time.

The company also announced “super-affordable” handsets under the LYF brand starting Rs 2999.

Key points

1	Free voice calls
2	Zero roaming charges
3	45 plans at Rs.50 per GB
4	Students to get 25% more data
5	Free data services for the first four months after the launch
6	10 tariff plans starting at Rs 19 a day for occasional users
7	Rs 149 a month for light users, Rs 4,999 a month for heavy data users
8	To achieve 100 million customers in record time
9	"Super-affordable” handsets under the LYF brand starting at Rs 2999.
10	To be formally launched on September 5