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Before Reliance Jio’s entry into the Indian market, choosing a postpaid connection over prepaid used to be a right choice. However, that isn’t the case as Reliance Jio has changed the entire prepaid segment in the country with its high data offering and unlimited voice calling. That said, incumbents like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea quickly revamped their prepaid plans to match Reliance Jio. However, the postpaid segment is equally important to the telcos as they generate revenue to the companies. Postpaid plans now ship with several other benefits like device security, free subscriptions to OTT services, data carry forward feature and so on. A couple of months ago, telcos- Airtel and Vodafone Idea revamped their postpaid offerings to attract more users on board. But should you choose a postpaid connection.
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The Postpaid Advantage – No Cap on Data
The single best advantage that the postpaid plans offer the subscribers over the prepaid plans is no daily data limit. The subscribers of postpaid plan can decide to binge watch Netflix one day and spend a large amount of data without worrying, whereas for prepaid users such a thing would be a tough job. However, when it comes to Reliance Jio, the telco has the answer ready for these postpaid plans in the form of prepaid plans with massive daily data offering. These include 4GB daily data plans like Rs 509 valid for 28 days or 5GB daily data plan of Rs 799 also valid for 28 days. However, the catch is that you don’t enjoy any data rollover.
There is also the economics factor in this decision, as the consumers are going to consider the postpaid packs a little costlier than the prepaid plans. However, to this, we would say that given the number of benefits that the postpaid plans are offering, paired with the slightly higher monthly price of these plans makes total sense, for example, the Bharti Airtel Rs 499 monthly postpaid plan which bundles 75GB data in a month. This plan also offers Netflix subscription for three months, Amazon Prime for one year and Airtel Thanks benefits including Wynk Music, Airtel TV and more.
