Jio threat: Airtel now offers 1,000 GB free data on select broadband plans

Bharti Airtel is currently offering 1,000 GB extra broadband data to customers on select broadband plans. The ‘Bonus’ offer is currently active on Airtel web portal and can be availed of by new and existing customers who enrolled for Bharti Airtel broadband services on or after 16 May.

Last week, the company refreshed its broadband plans and offered 100 per cent additional data to Airtel home broadband users under the new plans. Under the new plans, the company is offering 60 GB of high-speed broadband data at Rs 899, up from 30 GB offered earlier. Similarly, the updated Rs 1,099 plan dishes out 90 GB, compared with 50 GB earlier. The higher Rs 1,299 plan offers 125 GB, compared with 75 GB, while the premium Rs 1,499 plan offers 160 GB, against 100 GB earlier.

The latest Airtel broadband offer comes in the wake of younger rival Reliance Jio saying that it is testing its Fibrenet broadband service, JioFibre, in 5 major cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Jamnagar, Pune and Chennai. Though there is no defined timeline yet for the official launch of the JioFibre broadband service, some details of the offers that the company might give at launch were leaked online a few days ago.

The broadband services from Reliance Jio might be launched with a preview offer, which will give complimentary access to JioFibre services for 90 days. Under the complementary plan, the JioFibre broadband services will give a blazing speed of 100 Mbps, along with 100 GB of free data every month, in addition to free access to Jio premium applications. Under this offer, you could get a reduced speed of 1 Mbps after exhausting your monthly quota of 100 GB data.