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CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
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CEO Render Networks

BSNL has been making revisions to its prepaid plans for a while now. The government-owned PSU, which is struggling with financial issues, has now revised the popular Rs 1,098 prepaid plan. BSNL’s Rs 1,098 prepaid plan was introduced way back in 2016 when Reliance Jio made its entry to the Indian market. This plan from BSNL used to ship benefits for 84 days, but now, the company has reduced it to 75 days. One of the highlights of this prepaid plan from BSNL was its unlimited data offering, however, BSNL has revised that as well. BSNL is now capping the data benefit to 375GB only, but on the brighter side, there’s no daily data limit. After the completion of 375GB data benefit, BSNL users can browse at a mere 40 Kbps speeds.

BSNL Rs 1,098 Plan Gets a Major Revision: What It Offers Now?
BSNL has been revising several prepaid plans every now and then and the latest one to get the treatment is the Rs 1,098 prepaid plan. As per the most recent update, the Rs 1,098 now has a data limit and reduced validity. Before the revision, the Rs 1,098 prepaid plan offered benefits for 84 days, but it now offers benefits for just 75 days from the date of recharge.
Also, the data benefit used to unlimited earlier, which has now been revised to 375GB for the entire validity of 75 days. The revised benefits are already valid in Kerala circle only. Besides these benefits, the plan also ships with unlimited voice calling even to Mumbai and Delhi circles, and 100 SMSes per day for 75 days. Earlier, the plan did not offer any fixed data and the company used to market it as unlimited 2G/3G data plan. Even after this revision, BSNL is marketing the plan as an unlimited data plan, but do make a note that there’s a limit for 75 days and not daily data limit. After the 375GB data limit, BSNL users can enjoy data speeds of 40 Kbps, which will just be enough to send WhatsApp messages.