Jio to offer free voice calls, no roaming from April 1: Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday thanked all its Reliance Jio customers for an unprecedented response in the last six months. The Jio has crossed 100-million customers mark in just 170 days, Ambani said.

Addressing shareholders at Reliance Jio Digital event, Ambani said, "Seven customers added every single second since launch." 

According to the data consumed on Jio, users consumed over 100 crore GB data, more than 3.3 crore GB/day, making India the number one country in mobile data usage.

Jio was launched on September 5, 2016.

"Jio carries nearly 5.5 crore hours of video daily on its network. Jio has more than double the number of 4G base stations when compared to all the other Indian operators put together," Ambani said.

Making big announcement on the event, on all of Jio's tariff plans, all domestic voice calls to any network will always remain



free.

Here are the highlights

Jio Prime Members can avail introductory price of only Rs 303/month, effectively Rs 10/day

Jio to offer free voice calls, no roaming from Apr 1 and double data capacity in coming months

RJio user base has exceeded 100 million

Jio prime membership fees will be Rs 99 per year 

Ambani announces Jio Prime offer at one-time fee of Rs 99 + 300 Rs per month for unlimited data/voice

By the end of 2018, Jio network will be present in all the cities, villages and cover 99 percent of the country's population, promises Ambani.

Jio provided sustainable employment for 50 lakh people. Last month, Jio users consumed more than 100 GB of data