Reliance Jio creates history: Commercial launch 5th September, All voice calls and national roaming free in all plans
Mukesh Ambani, CMD of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced the commercial launch of Jio at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) today. The service will begin on September 5 and will offer absolutely free Voice, Text, 4G data and Jio digital app access for all users till December 2016 under the Jio welcome offer. Also existing users will continue to enjoy free access to Jio digital apps all the way till December 2017. The announcement, which is live at the moment, already revealed the tariffs of the packs. Seven packs come with 28 days validity and Jio apps subscriptions worth Rs. 1260 for free. The company will not charge for voice calls and SMS. Also, it charges a tenth of what its competitors are charging for 4G data. On an estimation, it’s charging at Rs. 50 per GB and is much lower on packs with higher data bundles. “Pay for only one service – either voice or data, not both,” Ambani said. “World over, operators charge only for data, voice and messaging are