New Delhi, April 14 : Telecom operator Reliance Jio has crossed the 300 million customers mark in two-and-a-half years of its operations, sources said.
The milestone was reached on March 2, they added.
Queries sent to Jio on the matter remained unanswered.
However, in its television commercials during the ongoing IPL season, Jio is shown ‘Celebrating 300 million users’.
Jio became the fastest company in the world to achieve 100 million telecom subscribers in 170 days of starting commercial operation.
In its earnings report for the quarter ended December 2018, Bharti AirtelNSE -1.27 % had disclosed that it had 284 million customers.
However, as per regulatory filings, Bharti Airtel reported having 340.2 million customers on its network in December and 340.3 million customers at the end of January.
Bharti Airtel crossed the 300 million customers mark in 19th year of its operations.
Vodafone Idea became the largest telecom player in the country with 400 million customers following the merger of mobile business of Vodafone India and Idea CellularNSE -1.23 % on August 31, 2018.
Meanwhile, Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio offers a host of prepaid recharge plans, ranging up to Rs. 9,999. These recharge plan offers 1.5 GB per day data to 5 GB per day high-speed data, according to Jio’s official website- jio.com. The data offered by Jio on these recharge packs is unlimited for the respective validity periods, but after consuming the daily prescribed limit, the speed gets reduced to 64 Kbps. So, in such a case, if a customer wants to avail data at high-speed, they make use of sachet packs. Jio offers two sachet packs, which are priced at Rs. 19 and Rs. 52, according to Jio’s website.
Given below are the two sachet packs offered by Reliance Jio:
Reliance Jio prepaid recharge plan priced at Rs. 19
Under this pack, Reliance Jio offers 150MB of data with unlimited calling and 20 SMSes. The validity of the pack is for a day and customers also get complimentary subscription to Jio apps, according to Jio’s website.
