JIOPHONE DIWALI-DUSSERA OFFER 2019

Reliance Jio has unveiled one more exciting festival gift to people of India. As part of Dussera and Diwali festival, Jio is providing a total worth of Rs 1500 as a free gift. Read on to know the exact details of this offer.

Currently JioPhone is priced at Rs 1500 in the market. At this price of Rs 1500, it is considered to be priced less than one-fourth the price of the cheapest smartphone available in the market. Company also boasts this device to be the perfect example of Make In India initiative, where JioPhone is claimed to be the only smartphone that is made in India, for Indian people and with an Indian Operating System.

Here is the good news, during this festive season starting from 4th of October 2019, you can avail the same JioPhone at just Rs 699. Yes, you read it right. Without any extra effort, you get a straight savings of Rs 801 (i.e. Rs 1500-Rs699).

Wait, there is more sweetness in this offer. When a consumer purchases new JioPhone under this offer, for the first 7 recharges made by consumer Jio will add Rs 99 4G data absolutely free. It brings an additional gift savings of around Rs 700.

In a detailed press release of this offer, Jio said that the hefty price benefits will allow 2G phone users to migrate to the faster 4G services which in turn will aid access to entertainment, payments, e-commerce, education, learning, train and bus booking, artificial intelligence apps and more. Jio has special plans for JioPhone users at extremely low prices along with higher data benefits. The JioPhone has been around for a while and it is one of the cheapest ways to move to 4G services. The JioPhone allows its users to make voice as well as video calls via its front camera and access modern apps such as Whatsapp, Facebook, Google Assistant and more. Users can even watch live TV and movies via all the Jio apps. The phone even connects to Wi-Fi networks and has Bluetooth connectivity.

To conclude this offer details, There is an other way of looking this offer. With a total benefit of Rs1500, you can get a JioPhone technically at zero price. How is this for a festival free gift, thanks to Reliance Jio.

ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT JIO GIGAFIBER

Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries revealed many details about most awaited wired broadband plan of Jio dubbed as " Jio Gigafiber" recently. He was speaking on the occasion of 42nd Annual General Meeting of Reliance Industries Limited on the 12th of August 2019. We have collated all the major points starting from launch, service details, installation and pricing of Jio Gigafiber service in this article.

Reliance Jio, the country’s second largest Telco by customers, is scheduled to launch the most awaited commercial home broadband plans under Jio Giga Fiber from September 5 of 2019 on the eve of third anniversary of launching Reliance Jio.

The most basic plan starts from Rs 700 per month which offers a minimum speed of 100 Mbps. The plans will begin from a minimum of Rs 700 a month, going to Rs 10,000 a month for premium customers, offering a variety of services including minimum speeds of 100 Mbps, free LED TV on each connection and free calls from landlines. Jio is also planning to introduce very cheaper international call rates from the landline connections at fixed monthly rental of Rs 500 to the United States and Canada. “In India even the most basic Jio Giga Fiber will start at 100 mbps at the lowest end. We have plans to go all the way to 1 Gbps. We are pricing our plan at one-tenth of global rate to make it accessible for every home,” Ambani said.

The Premium customers of Jio Gigafiber Service will also be able to watch movies on the same day of the release. This service is expected to be made available by mid of 2020.

Jio Fiber Welcome Offer:

Jio has also announced a Jio Welcome Offer, under which all those who buy its annual plans will get an HD or 4K LED TV and a 4K set-top box for free. Landline connection will also be for free. Jio has also kept installation charges free during the initial rollout period.

How to apply for Jio Fiber:

The registration process is available on the official website of Reliance Jio. If you are interested in this service, you can apply for a Jio Fiber connection at its website here in a simple three-step process. In the first page, mention the address where you want to get a JioFiber connection. Provide details like your name, mobile number and Email id. Submit an OTP sent to your phone. The registration process, which is more like an expression of interest, is now complete. You will get a message stating that once the feasibility is confirmed you will receive a call from Jio's sales representative for further process. When your request is materialized, you will need to submit any of the two documents to get the connection: Aadhaar card or any other original valid proof of identification and proof of address like voter id card, PAN card, passport, driving license, etc.

Jio Fiber Installation Procedure:

Once the JioFiber service is available in your area, an installation engineer will soon visit your house to install the broadband system. Reliance Jio has announced on its website that during the initial rollout phase, installation charges will be free. "As part of our initial roll out we are offering complimentary JioFiber installation and connection to all our customers. Other than the refundable security deposit, as of now there are no additional installation charges," Jio said. Along with the Jio Fiber connection, you will also get a free landline for making voice calls.

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New Surprise Cashback Offer by Jio

As a new year bonanza, Reliance Jio has launched yet one more exciting offer to all its prime users. In this unbelievable offer, Jio promises various cashbacks up to 3300 INR with just a recharge of Rs 399 and above.

This offer resembles the previous "Triple Cash Back Offer", but promises much more than that. The basic gist of this offer revolves around obtaining various cashback schemes and coupons for users depending upon how they recharge the minimum of Rs399 or above plans.

So, what do we have in this offer?

Jio Prime customers can avail Surprise cashback of up to Rs 3,300 on every Recharge of Rs 399 or above done between 26th December 2017 to 15th January 2018. Well, the cashback is promised in three different categories:

1) Rs 400 Cashback in the form of Recharge Coupons provided immediately by Reliance Jio. As soon as a recharge is successful, Jio will add 8 coupons of Rs 50 denomination immediately into the account of the Jio number. These vouchers can be redeemed one at a time against any future recharges of Rs 309 and above plans, also on Rs 91 or above data add-ons done via Myjio app.

2) Second cashback upto Rs 300 is promised instantly. Note the word "Upto" here which indicates that not all the digital wallets offer full Rs 300 cashback. Below table is reference for knowing the amount of cashback promised against different digital wallets.

3) Third type of cashback is in the form of gift vouchers for various E-commerce players with which jio has made a partnership. On every recharge, Jio will randomly add gift vouchers worth Rs 2600 from any selected 3 e-commerce partners.

The following are the Jio ecommerce partners for the Surprise cashback offer:

a) Zoomcar: 20% OFF on Zoomcar upto ₹1,000

b) Oyo Rooms: 30% discount on OYO Hotel booking and 50% OYO Money cashback up to      ₹1,500

c) Paytm Mall: Cashback up to ₹2,000 on minimum purchase of ₹10,000 in Electronics

d) BigBasket: 20% off on a minimum purchase of ₹600

e) Grofers: Flat ₹300 cashback on order of ₹1500

f)  Yatra: ₹1,000 OFF on roundtrip and ₹500 OFF on one way on Domestic Flights.

It is worth to note that all the a user can have a maximum of 25 recharges on a given jio number at any given point of time including add-ons, top-up, plan recharges, ISD/IR packs. However, the maximum number of recharges of Rs 399 or above plans, during the offer period can be upto 5 recharges only per account.

As of the latest statement, the validity of e-commerce partner coupons is only until 31st March 2018. So, we suggest you plan to use them as soon as you get them.

How much money Jio Saved to Indian consumers?

Dear readers,

In our previous post "Jio Impacts", we discussed in detail how Reliance Jio helped millions of Indian public directly or indirectly. Now, the numeric figures are out.

In this article from ULTRA (Click here for source article), Mr. Sreejiraj has tried to express the benefits in terms of monetary value.

As per this article, the estimated savings from Reliance Jio data usage is about 18,000 Crore Rupees for last 6 months. It also means that consumers did not pay for data recharges ranging to this amount, hence other telecom operators took this hit.

Jio Impacts

Jio's entry has created a major sensation in the India's telecom sector. In our welcome post, we have talked about how different people have perceived and received Jio's freebies.

Today, in simple terms, we have compiled a summary of top-5 impacts from Jio Services.

Impact-1: Jio made millions of Indians happy




For some time, let us ignore the intention of Reliance Jio or Mukesh Ambani while they introduced sweet deals in the form of free 4G services. Irrespective of the intention behind, there is no questioning in the fact that it has bought happiness in the life of millions of indian citizens, especially the poor people.




Impact-2: Jio added healthy price war

Many analysts commented on Jio's strategy as "Predatory". While we respect their opinions, but will have to respectfully disagree on this fact. Reason is simple, competition is natural phenomenon in any sector and the level of competition keeps oscillating from weak to tough. If Jio had not posed this competition, someone else would have at some point of time.

            We were really surprised when we heard the term "Predatory" in relation to Jio offers. How can one ignore the extent of benefits to common public!

The data charges as well as calling charges have drastically dropped, thanks to Jio.

Impact-3: Great Push to "Digital India Campaign"

What a perfect timing!! With the central government's push for "Digital India", many people thought it would take very long time while India's villagers learnt the required skills. Jio has not solved all the problems, but definitely has accelerated the pace with which digital India is being imbibed into indian public.





Impact-4: Knowledge Flush to Rural India

Look at the following 2 cases:

1) One of the local news channels in Maharashtra, was showing a group of farmers sitting under a tree and viewing the YouTube videos related to crop management. Imagine their smiles!!

2) One government school teacher from Karnataka is said to have used Jio freebie to educate the students with science animated videos online. Could you have imagined this service prior to Jio launch in rural schools?

These cases are just a glimpse of how Jio has helped millions of people to acquire easy and free knowledge.

Impact-5: Blessing to New Startups

One of my team member was sharing a story of how Jio has helped to save startup expenses worth thousands of rupees. Usually, a startup company invests more than 5000 rupees to acquire a reliable internet access. Every year, expenses for data recharges accumulate to an extent of 2 thousand rupees on an average.

Just imagine the savings for a startup company which was incorporated before September-2016. For very large companies, the data charges might be negligible. But for SME (Small & Medium Enterprises), every drop counts.

Conclusion:

Whatever may be the strategy or intention behind Jio's cheap offers, but its contributions to the society can't be ignored. We don't know what fate lies for Jio in future, but we just appreciate and thanks for its contribution.