Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel May Have Hinted Price Hike: Opinion

Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel recently announced new prepaid plans. The interesting thing about these plans was their nature of allowing users to consume data without any daily limits. But there’s also one thing that many might have missed out on. It is that how expensive each GB of data is being offered to the users with the plans. This may have been an indirect signal from the telcos about the possibly coming tariff hikes. Let’s take a look at how these new plans are charging more money for each GB of data from the users.

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Reliance Jio Has Brought Expensive Plans to the Market

While Jio has launched five plans, Airtel has only launched one plan. To understand how much more Jio is charging from the customers, let us pick two of its plans, one from the old offerings and one from the newly launched.

For comparison, we are taking the old Rs 2,399 plan and the new Rs 2,397 plans from Reliance Jio. Both the plans come with 365 days of validity, unlimited calling, 100 SMS/day, and complimentary Jio app benefits.

The only difference between both the plans is their data benefits. The Rs 2,399 plan offers users 2GB of daily data, while the Rs 2,397 plan offers users a total of 365GB of data without any daily usage limits.

So with the Rs 2,399 plan, users get 730GB of total data, while with the Rs 2,397 plan, users get half of it, which is 365GB. Thus, each GB of data with the Rs 2,399 plan is offered to the user for Rs 3.28. In comparison, with the Rs 2,397 plan, users get each GB of data at the cost of Rs 6.56, which almost twice as expensive.