Have Fun with Jio’s New Year Plan of Rs 2020 for 12 Months

Internet Rates Have Risen -

In December we have seen internet rates have risen by approx. 50 %. Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea has increased their rates from Dec 3 onwards. Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel shared their new rates in unlimited plan with 50% higher cost. Reliance Jio all in one plans are 40 % higher on other hand. Telecom companies were facing losses due to the data available at cheaper rates.

As per Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), prices of mobile data have reduced a lot as compared to 2014. In 2014 mobile date was offered at the rate of Rs 269 per GB. In 2015 it was offered at the rate of Rs 226 per GB. Then when 4G technology came in India the rates went too low with Rs 75.57 per GB in 2016.

Further the rates of wireless data were down more from Rs 19.35 per GB in year 2017 to Rs 11.78 per GB in year 2018.

Jio New Year Offer for 12 Months –

Company on 23^rd December announced their new year offer plan for 12 months for both smartphone users and featured phone users. Smartphone & featured phone users will get access to 1-year unlimited services.

Smartphone users will get 1.5 GB data per day with jio to jio unlimited voice calls and sms for one year. Feature phone users will get 500 MB data per day with jio to jio unlimited voice calls and free sms. Offer is available from 24^th Dec 2019 and will be available till first week of Jan 2020. There will be similar offer for 1-year plan for Rs 2199 which users can take benefit of if in case they miss to recharge with Rs 2020 plan.

IUC May Be Reduced to Zero From 1 Jan 2020 –

Currently you have to pay 6 paise per minute if you are making calls to non jio mobile. Jio to jio calls are free but IUC (Interconnect Usage Charge) are paid to the other mobile network operator if you are making calls to the respective mobile operators. Earlier Reliance Jio use to pay the IUC charges to other operators like Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel or others. Company has paid nearly Rs 13,500 crores in past.

But now for IUC company has to deduct 6 paise per minute call for offnet mobile calls. It is not mandatory to opt for IUC Top-Up if you don’t have to make calls to other networks. If you have only jio to jio calls, then IUC Top-Up is not required. IUC Top-Up does not have any validity you can use it as per your usage whenever required.

Good thing is IUC may be reduced to zero from 1^st Jan 2020 and then you don’t have to pay any charges for making calls to other mobile networks like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, etc.