Jio rolls out new feature phone offers

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has launched new offers for feature phone users that the company claimed will help the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator closer to its aim of 2G-free India, the company said on Friday.

The telco will offer a JioPhone device, unlimited voice calls and 2GB data a month for two years at a price of ₹1,999. The offer will be available across all Jio and Reliance Retail stores starting 1 March, the company said.

For similar benefits, Jio claimed, customers pay more than twice the amount on other networks. It claimed to have upgraded over 100 million users to JioPhone and said the country still has 300 million mobile subscribers “trapped in the 2G era”.