The days of free Jio 4G service are going to end on March 31. The Jio service will no longer be free once the Jio happy new year expires on March 31. This means that some teething problems for both Jio and Jio users are in store. A lot of people use Jio as a data simcard because it is free, it is possible that lot of these Jio users will drop off the network once the Jio 4G is no longer free. Currently, as Reliance chairman said, Jio has over 100 million users. The challenge for the company now is to retain these users after March 31. This is where the Jio Prime comes in. While saying that Jio will offer the best data tariff plans in the country that will give users 20% more data compared to what Airtel, Vodafone and others may offer. Mr Mukesh Ambani also highlighted a new Jio plan which is called Jio Prime and it will be available only to a select set of users at least for now. To clear the doubts about Jio Prime it may be clarified that Jio Prime is new Jio plan which will be available after March 31 to the users. It is also a special plan and will not be available to all. According to Jio boss Mukesh Ambani the Jio Prime is open to all existing Jio users. The plan is aimed at stopping people from leaving Jio network. This means all the current 100 million Jio users are eligible. Also anyone who joins the Jio network before March 31 will also get to apply for the Jio Prime membership. Now about the cost of Jio Prime: Jio Prime is a membership, similar to Amazon Prime and it comes with some benefits but these benefits will cost extra. Jio Prime membership will cost you Rs. 99 for 12 months.
About the benefits: the main benefit of the Jio Prime membership is its data plan. You will be eligible for a special Jio plan where you will have to pay Rs. 303 per month to get the ‘unlimited’ data. Now this unlimited data is actually FUP-attached plan. The FUP is 1 GB data per day at full 4G speed. When the limit is crossed, the speed will reduced and it will go back to full 4G speed after the day is over. In other words at the cost of Rs. 303, you will get 30 GB 4G data per month. It is not as good as the free data but it is not bad either. This tariff will apply on the first 12 months.
