Reliance Jio to offer world's cheapest data said RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani At Rs 50 per gigabyte it is a fifth of what mobile phone users have been paying so far
Reliance Jio, the telecom offering from Mukesh Ambani, will offer the world’s cheapest data, said the 59-year-old billionaire, disclosing the long-awaited prices of what’s being set up as the country’s largest 4G network said a report in the NDTV.
Ambani said that Jio will not charge users at all for voice calls, including long-distance within India. But the big disruptor is the price of data- just Rs 50 per gigabyte, a fifth of what mobile phone users have been paying so far.
For customers who use more than 75 GB, the price will slide further to Rs 25 per GB. This, Ambani, said, take India from “Gandhigiri to data-giri.”
Starting Monday, any cell phone user, including those with smartphones as cheap as Rs. 2,999, will be able to sample all Jio services – including its library of movies and music - for free. The offer ends on December 31.
The announcements on Thursday, made in Mumbai at an annual shareholders meeting which included wife Neeta, mother Kokilaben and children Isha and Anant, have beaten the expectations of both the market and customers, who have been lining up for SIM cards to switch to Jio, which first started offering free services in May 2016.
