The government-owned telecom service provider, BSNL, has extended its Bumper Offer, under which it's providing every prepaid user additional 2.1GB daily data on top of the existing data benefit. BSNL Bumper Offer, which earlier used to give a user 2.2GB additional data now revised to offer 2.1GB extra data per day. This new extension is valid until January 31, 2019, and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited also added two new prepaid plans to the eligible list. Earlier, BSNL provided the offer on 11 prepaid plans, but now, the same offer is valid on 13 prepaid plans including the annual prepaid plans launched very recently. During Diwali this year, BSNL launched two prepaid plans of Rs 1,699 and Rs 2,099 respectively, offering 2GB and 4GB daily data benefit for 365 days The Rs 2,099 prepaid plan, under this offer ships a whopping 6.1GB daily data to the customers for the entire validity period.
BSNL Revives 'Bumper Offer' Till January End
Reportedly, BSNL had earlier rolled out the ‘Monsoon Offer’ which was essentially the same offer as the current one. As per the telco’s announcement, the offer was to be valid until September 14. However, the telco had resumed the benefits of the offer and extended the date to November 14, 2018. Following this move, and seeing more response from its subscribers, BSNL had yet again decided to extend the validity of this ‘Bumper Offer’ thus pleasing its subscribers once again. This time, BSNL had announced that the validity extension has been put off till January 31, 2019, meaning that BSNL users will be able to reap benefits of this offer until the end of January next year.
BSNL also clarified that the 2.1GB data being offered under this plan wouldn’t only be the replacement to their existing data plan but instead, it would provide additional 2.1GB of data besides their usual data benefit. So if a subscriber has subscribed to a plan with 1GB daily data benefit, then owing to this offer, the user will be able to get 3.1GB of data per day.
Two Long-Term STVs to Now Pair with Bumper Offer
When BSNL had first rolled out the Bumper Offer in September, the offer was valid with subscriptions of Rs 186, Rs 429, Rs 485, Rs 666 and Rs 999 plans. The offer was also valid over STVs like Rs 187, Rs 333, Rs 349, Rs 444 and Rs 448. Adding on to this list, now BSNL is also granting the benefits of this offer over two high values plans as well.
As noted, BSNL is now providing the Bumper Offer benefits on STV 1699 and STV 2099. Both of these recharges by BSNL come with a long validity of 365 days and the STV-1699 ships 2GB data per day while the STV 2099 offers double the benefit with 4GB of data per day. Combined with the Bumper Offer from BSNL, both of these STVs will be shipping 4.21GB per day and 6.21GB per day respectively. Also, it’s worth noting that BSNL subscribers will get 11MB extra data credited to their accounts because the actual benefit of this offer has been reported to be 2.21GB.
