To Counter Jio, BSNL Now Offers Up To 8 Times More Data

Mangalore Today News Network

June 04, 2017: Reliance Jio’s aggressive pricing of data plans has led to a highly competitive and responsive telecom market. Incumbent telecom players are continuously revising their postpaid and prepaid plans in order to remain competitive and not lose out on their existing market shares.

State-owned telecom player BSNL has announced new postpaid plans with which it aims to maintain its market share in a highly competitive telecom market. In its latest offering, BSNL has increased data offering in some of its postpaid plans. Under these revised plans, BSNL is now offering data which is up to 8 times more compared to its previous plans. The new offer by BSNL is applicable from July, 1, 2017. BSNL said it existing postpaid customers will get the benefit of the revised plans.

Here are the details

Plan-99

Under ’Plan-99’, BSNL now offers 250 MB of data. Earlier, the telecom operator did not provide data along with this plan. All other benefits under the plan remain same. This plan comes at a monthly rental of Rs. 99.

Plan-225

Another plan, called ’Plan-225’, now offers 1,000 MB of data compared with 200 MB earlier. Along with data, subscribers of this plan also get free calls worth Rs. 180. This plan comes at a monthly rental of Rs. 225.

Plan-325

BSNL now offers 2,000 MB of data under its ’Plan-325’. Earlier, the state-owned telecom company offered 250 MB of data under this plan.

Plan 525

BSNL now offers 3,000 MB of promotional data under its ’Plan 525’, which comes at a monthly rental of Rs. 525. Earlier, the telecom company offered 500 MB of data under this plan.

Plan 725

The Plan 725, which is available at a monthly rental of Rs. 725, now offers 5,000 MB of data compared to 1GB earlier.

However, under BSNL’s other postpaid plans - such as Plan 149, Plan 799, Plan 1,125 and Plan 1,525, data offers remain same as earlier. See details of all BSNL postpaid plans here.

Last month, BSNL had introduced new special tariff vouchers (STVs) for its prepaid customers. In its latest offering, BSNL has launched a plan with 120GB of data and unlimited calls at Rs. 666. This BSNL recharge pack, called "Sixer 666" and priced at Rs. 666, has a validity of 60 days, and aims to counter Jio’s Rs. 509 plan.

Earlier, BSNL had launched the "Chaukka 444" plan with 360 GBs of bundled data at Rs. 444. Last month, BSNL offered special combo vouchers worth Rs. 786 and Rs. 599 for its prepaid mobile customers on Eid al-Fitr.

Courtesy: NDTV