JioGST Offer from Reliance Jio

While India is in the grips of GST Fever, Reliance Jio has tried to leverage this opportunity to capture new customers by introducing a new offer called JioGST. More details below:

What is JioGST offer?

In this offer, Jio has introduced a starter kit named "Jiofi JioGST Starter Kit" at a price of 1999 INR. This kit contains the following items:

1) One year valid Software solution for GST Filing.
2) A jiofi device.
3) A jio SIM with unlimited calls and 24GB data for 1 Year.
4) A billing application to facilitate GST software use.

Features of JioGST Software:

Purchase of this kit provides the user with a 1 year premium access to JioGST software that can be used to file the returns of GST. Customers do not need to have a separate billing software or computer, but all the purchases can be captured using the billing app access for which is also provided in this kit. This facilitates in the automated population of purchase summary.

All the invoices are created as fully GST compliant and a daily summary can also be populated. This all can be done without any printer or computer, but just using your mobile with Jio SIM and the billing application. The sofware contains a readily available catalog of thousands of consumer, grocery and electronic products with tax codes.

What other features available:

As mentioned earlier, this kit also contains a Jio SIM along with a Jiofi device which can be used for internet access. A free 4G data of 24GB is provided with a validity of one year. In addition to this, the customer will have access to thousands of tax professionals who will be empanelled with JioGST software. You can obtain find a nearest professional and authorize him to carryout filings on behalf of you.

Reliance Jio in its website claims that all these features will cost around 10000 INR in the market, but Jio is providing this service only for 1999 INR.

Jio launched Submarine Cable System - AAE1

New submarine cable system AAE1 from Reliance Jio

In its official press release, Reliance Jio on Thursday has said that it has launched the Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1) submarine cable system, which will provide up to 40 Terabits of new capacity in the region. This initiative is to cater the raising demands for  data requirements throughout India and rest of world.

Jio has played a huge role in the increase in data consumption in the country courtesy its ultra-low cost 4G mobile service. The new cable has been launched by Reliance Jio at a time when the India's data needs are soaring and consumers in the world's second largest telecom market are just about getting used to streaming music, watching videos and TV on-the-go.

"This large scale project is the combined work of leading telecom service providers from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia," Jio said in a release. The submarine cable system will stretch over 25,000 km from Marseille, France, to Hong Kong, with 21 cable landings across Asia and Europe. The cable consortium includes China Unicom, Etisalat, GT5L, Mobily, Omantel, Reliance Jio, Telecom Egypt, TeleYemen, and many others.

With Points of Presence (PoP) in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and three onward connectivity options in Europe (via France, Italy and Greece), the submarine system is expected to provide the "requisite flexibility and diversity" for carriers and their customers, the release added. It would link other cable systems and fiber networks to deliver direct access to all global markets.

Mathew Oommen, President-Jio, said that the new terabit capacity and 100Gbps direct connectivity to global content hubs would ensure that Jio continues to offer customers high speed internet and rich digital service experience. "We are excited to participate in the launch and deliver the cable landing in Mumbai at the time when India's data traffic continues its accelerated consumption and growth," he added.

80% of Jio Customers use it as Secondary option

In spite the wrath of telecom tsunami created by Reliance Jio's entry, it seems that Jio has still lot of work to do in the telecom sector to reach top spot as per a report from the Bangalore based marketing research agency. It its report, Velocity MR has stated that only about 20% of the jio customers are using it as only source ( standalone source) of calling and data usage. Though this is not a small achievement in this short span of time, given the amount of freebies offered and being offered,  it indicates the necessary focus jio must continue to rule this sector.

The report states that the remaining 80% of customers are using Jio's services as a secondary source to enjoy world's cheapest 4G data offers. At this juncture, it is said that only thing stopping other customers to switch completely to jio is the quality of its networks.

Sources and developments from Reliance Jio indicate that Jio is putting lot of efforts to improve the network quality by expanding its assets across India. For now, no body knows what is cooking in the corporate kitchen of Reliance Jio Infocom, but many are guessing that Jio will be back with a stunning offer before October end to attract more customers.

20% additional data - Jio's Limited Offer

Reliance Jio is giving away an additional 20 per cent of 4G data on purchase of selected smart phones of brand LYF. Note that this is a limited period offer, valid until the exhaustion of stocks. So Hurry Up!

This offer from Jio is applicable for both existing Prime members and new customers. The "20% more data" scheme will be applicable on purchases made on or after June 9 and till stocks last, Jio added. This Jio offer is valid for 10 LYF brand smart phones: Earth 1, Earth 2, Water 1, Water 7S, Water 8, Water 10, Water 11, F1, F1S and Wind 4S, Reliance Jio Infocomm said on its website.

Under Jio's "20% more data" offer, customers buying any of the eligible LYF smart phones along with a recharge of Rs. 309 or Rs. 509 will be entitled for one additional 4G data voucher of 6 GB or 12 GB respectively. According to Jio, the additional data will be credited within 48 hours of recharge.

The additional data vouchers can be availed for a maximum of six recharges during the entitlement period - between June 9, 2017 and March 31st, 2018. In case of redeemed additional data vouchers, the data entitlement, if any, that remains un utilized at end of the recharge cycle period, will expire and be forfeited, Jio added.