Postpaid War: Is the Vodafone RED Basic Rs 299 Plan Better Than Jio’s Rs 199 Plan?

With the entry of Reliance Jio to the postpaid segment, telcos were scared that the new entrant will bring down their ARPU down even more. The Mukesh Ambani-led Jio launched a lone postpaid plan of Rs 199 offering 25GB of data (no carry forward option), unlimited voice calling and 100 SMS per day for a month. Months later, UK-based Vodafone revised its RED range of postpaid plans to match Jio’s basic postpaid plan. To take on the JioPostpaid plan of Rs 199, Vodafone introduced a postpaid plan of Rs 299 with 20GB of data (carry forward option available), unlimited voice calls and 100 SMS per month. Surely, the Rs 299 plan doesn’t compare with Vodafone’s other RED postpaid plans such as Rs 399, Rs 499 and others because they ship with one-year of free Amazon Prime subscription, Netflix subscription and more. But the RED Basic postpaid plan of Rs 299 takes on Jio’s plan of Rs 199, here’s how.

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Unlimited Voice Calling

The RED Basic postpaid plan from Vodafone offers unlimited local, STD and national roaming calls for the entire rental period. Having said that, the best part of this postpaid plan is the voice calls are unlimited, and there’s no limit for the voice calls as Vodafone has set for prepaid users. For the unaware, Vodafone is limiting the voice calls on its prepaid network at 250 minutes per day and 1000 minutes per week. Jio is also offering unlimited voice calls without any FUP limit within India.