Days ahead of Diwali, Reliance Jiohas announced a limited-period sale of its 4G-enabled device JioPhone 2.
The festive sale of JioPhone 2 - which is an upgraded version of JioPhone - will open from 12:00 pm on November 5 to November 12, 2018, according to the telecom company's website - jio.com.
The festive sale of JioPhone 2 comes after several rounds of flash sale in the past few weeks.
Reliance Jio - the provider of telecom services under brand Jio - had introduced the JioPhone 2 device in August this year.Currently, Reliance Jio provides three prepaid recharge packs for the JioPhone devices.These are priced at Rs 49, Rs 99 and Rs 153.
Reliance Jio offers 1-42 GBs of high speed data, among other benefits, in the three packs for the JioPhone platform.Rs 153 JioPhone planIn a recharge plan priced at Rs 153, Reliance Jio provides 42 GBs of high speed data with a daily limit of 1.5 GBs, among other benefits, to the subscriber for a validity period of 28 days.(The Rs 153 JioPhone recharge comes with 1.5 GBs of data at high speed every day for 28 days)Rs 99 JioPhone planAmong other benefits, the Rs 99 plan comes with benefits such as 0.5 GB data per day for a validity period of 28 days (total high speed data benefit of 14 GBs), according to Reliance Jio.
That means a subscriber gets 0.5 GB of mobile data at high speed every day during the validity period of this JioPhone plan.(The Rs 99 JioPhone recharge comes with 14 GBs of data at high speed)Other benefits include free voice calls and 300 SMSes for the entire validity period.Rs 49 JioPhone planReliance Jio's most inexpensive plan for JioPhone is priced at Rs 49.
This plan comes with a total high speed data benefit of 1 GB for a validity period of 28 days.
That means the subscriber can use a maximum of 1 GB data at high speed during the 28-day period.(The JioPhone recharge pack of Rs 49 offers a validity period of 28 days)While voice calls are free, just like all Jio plans, this pack allows subscribers to send 50 SMSes free of cost during the validity period, according to the Jio website.In all three plans, data continues at a revised speed of 64 Kbps once the user exhausts the respective limits on quantity of high speed data allowed, according to Jio.Reliance Jio had in September announced introduction of mobile app WhatsApp to the JioPhone platform.Mobile apps such as MyJio, JioMusic, JioTV, JioCinema, JioVideoCall, and JioPay "come preloaded" on the JioPhone 2 device, according to the telecom company.
The customer can also download additional mobile apps, according to Jio.