Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Idea Cellular (now Vodafone Idea Limited) has rolled out a new Rs 149 tariff plan to its prepaid users in circles such as Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka and others. With this new plan, Idea Cellular is providing data, voice calling and SMS benefits for a period of 28 days. The plan takes on Jio’s Rs 149 prepaid recharge but falls short with the data benefit and even Idea limits the voice calls to 250 minutes per day. Furthermore, it also takes on Airtel’s Rs 149 segmented recharge and even comes with 5GB additional data benefit as well. In the circles where it’s launched, Idea Cellular is offering Rs 149 recharge as an open market one, meaning every prepaid user can get the recharge done.

Idea Cellular Rs 149 Prepaid Recharge: Benefits and Validity
First of all, Idea Cellular is offering all the three essential benefits- data, voice calling and text messages. The Rs 149 recharge, which is valid for 28 days offers a total of 33GB 2G/3G/4G data benefit, but we’re not sure about the daily data benefit though. The plan also gives a user unlimited voice calls, but the telco is limiting the calls to 250 minutes per day and 1000 minutes per week. Notably, Idea Cellular allows a user to make voice calls to only 100 unique numbers during the validity period of the plan. Lastly, users can also send 100 text messages every day to any network the country, which in turn makes the overall SMS benefit of 2800 SMS.