Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Ltd. with his wife Nita Ambani and son Akash Ambani arrives for the company's annual general meeting in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Ltd. with his wife Nita Ambani and son Akash Ambani arrives for the company's annual general meeting in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)
Storming his way into the telecom sector, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani Thursday announced the launch of much-talked about Jio 4G service, offering free voice calls and national roaming along with what he touted as the world’s lowest data tariff.
Targeting 100 million customers in the shortest span of time, Mr Ambani told Reliance Industries’ annual general meeting that its wireless phone unit, Reliance Jio Info-comm Ltd, will offer data for Rs 50 per GB and monthly plan for as low as Rs 149. Voice calling for Jio users will be free for life, so will be national roaming.
“We Indians have come to appreciate and applaud Gandhi-giri, now we can all do ‘data-giri’, which is an opportunity to do unlimited good things with unlimited data,” Mr Ambani said. He also announced a “free welcome offer” for Jio customers from September 5 till December 31, i.e free data services for four months, after which it will offer 10 tariff plans starting at Rs 19 a day for occasional users, Rs 149 a month for low data users and Rs 4,999 a month for heavy data users.
