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Airtel 4GB Rs. 999 plan & Bonus 30GB offer: Everything you need to know
The Airtel Rs. 999 prepaid plan has 28-day validity
It provides 4GB data of 3G/ 4G per day
Users also get bundled local and STD calls with the plan
India’s top telecom operator, Bharti Airtel has revised its prepaid plans. Airtel is now offering 4GB data per day with its new recharge pack of Rs. 999. Along with this, there are other similar plans have also been introduced. However, these new plans are valid only for select customers for now.
Airtel is now offering this new Rs. 999 plan under which the users get 4GB data per day and unlimited voice calls for 28 days. In contrast, the newcomer Reliance Jio also has a Rs. 999 plan that gives 90GB data for 90 days along with unlimited voice calls.
Along with the Rs. 999 plan, the company is also offering some other newer plans such as Rs. 399, Rs. 499, Rs. 549 and Rs. 799. The Rs. 399 plan gives 1GB data per day for 4G handset users, and just 1.5GB data for non-4G handset users. This plan is valid for 84 days for select users, while normally it gives 28 days validity.
Further, the Rs. 499 plan gives 1.5GB data per day, while the Rs. 549 plan offers 2GB data per day. Next, Rs. 799 plan gives 3GB data per day. All these plans are valid for 28 days. Also, these two plans offer unlimited voice calls.
These new plans from Airtel have been introduced to take on Reliance Jio which also has similar Rs. 309, Rs. 399, and Rs. 509 plans. Jio’s Rs. 309 plan offers 56GB data for 56 days, while the Rs. 399 plan gives 84GB data for 84 days. Jio’s Rs. 509 plan gives 112GB of data for 56 days i.e. 2GB data per day.
Bonus 30GB offer for New Postpaid users
Further, Airtel has also announced a new bonus offer for its postpaid customers as well. Dubbed as ‘Bonus 30GB’ offer is for the new postpaid customers. The new offer provides new postpaid users with 30GB of free data over a span of three months i.e. 10GB free data per month. The company says that with the new offer, customers will also get the free SIM delivered to their doorstep.
The new Airtel Bonus 30GB offer is available with all of the company’s Unlimited series postpaid plans. The Postpaid users can avail Bonus 30GB offer with Rs. 499, Rs. 649, Rs. 799, and Rs. 1,199 plans. To claim ‘Bonus 30GB’ free data, users need to download the MyAirtel app, which displays a banner to claim free data.
Earlier this month Airtel has also announced that it is offering its postpaid users up to 60GB of free data, on installing the company’s Airtel TV app. Under this offer, users will get 10GB of free data per month for six months, making it a total 60GB of free data to users who install the app.
Airtel has launched a new prepaid plan offering 4GB data per day that takes on similar data-heavy plans by the likes of Reliance Jio and BSNL. The new plan has validity of 28 days, with a total of 112GB of 3G/ 4G data on offer, at a price of Rs. 999. This Airtel Rs. 999 plan is only seems to be available for prepaid consumers for now and can be purchased via the MyAirtel app or the Airtel.in website under recharges. Earlier on Monday, the telecom operator also launched a Bonus 30GB offer that provides new postpaid customers with 30GB of complimentary data.
Seemingly aimed at users with high data consumption, the Airtel Rs. 999 prepaid plan comes with “unlimited” local and STD calls. However, under the Terms & Conditions section, the company elaborates that the bundled calls are capped at 250 minutes per day and 1,000 minutes a week for both local and STD calls. Calls made beyond this limit will be charged at 10p per minute for Airtel-to-Airtel calls, and 30p per minute for calls to other networks.
Users who purchase the Airtel Rs. 999 plan via Airtel Payments Bank will get 50 percent cashback as part of an ongoing offer.
Reliance Jio has a similar data-heavy Rs. 999 pack for prepaid users, which comes with 90GB data. Though the data is lesser compared to Airtel’s plan, there is no daily cap on data consumption. On the other hand, the validity of the pack is 90 days, so on an average, the user gets 1GB data per day. The Rs. 509 Jio plan comes with 112GB data, but offers only 2GB data per day and validity of 56 days.
BSNL also has a plan with 4GB data per day limit, priced at Rs. 444. The plan has a validity of 90 days, meaning a generous 360GB of data on offer. However, unlike Airtel and Jio, BSNL does not have a 4G network yet, so the data will be capped at 3G speeds only.
Airtel to triple data speed soon
NEW DELHI: Bharti AirtelBSE -1.12 %'s 4G subscribers may soon be able to browse the internet and stream videos at average speeds of 30-35 Mbps, nearly three times the present day average 4G speed, with the No 1 carrier planning to deploy Massive Mimo technology in key cities in India.
People aware of the details of trials going on in Bengaluru, Manesar and Chandigarh said the market leader may start commercial roll out of the technology, considered to be more efficient than 4G but pre-5G, between December 2017 and February 2018, as the market leader invests into technology to take the speed battle to bitter rival Reliance Jio.
“In a quarter, a critical number of sites will have Massive Mimo deployed in top four metros and Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru,” said one of the people aware of the matter.
A second person said technical evaluations are on with gear suppliers Huawei and ZTE for sourcing radio equipment and installations, contracts for which may be closed within a month.
Bharti Airtel declined comment, while Huawei and ZTE didn't respond to emailed queries.
Massive Mimo, or massive multiple input multiple output, increases capacity of a base station by five to seven times and reduces interference substantially, in turn boosting the transmission signal to the devices. This means that a subscriber using voice and data, will get data speed which can be between 30 Mbps and 35 Mbps on average and even up to 50 Mbps in peak times. Comparatively, depending on one’s 4G plan, the mobile internet speed varies from 4 Mbps to 16 Mbps on paper.
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