Twitter
Advertisement

Reliance Jio effect: Vodafone introduces prepaid plan with unlimited voice calls at Rs 99

In an effort to compete with Reliance Jio and Airtel, Vodafone has now launched a new voice-only prepaid plan for a price of Rs 99, which will offer unlimited local, STD and roaming voice calls for a period of 28 days. This plan is only valid for Vodafone customers in 4G circles.

Latest News
article-main
FacebookTwitterWhatsappLinkedin

In an effort to compete with Reliance Jio and Airtel, Vodafone has now launched a new voice-only prepaid plan for a price of Rs 99, which will offer unlimited local, STD and roaming voice calls for a period of 28 days. This plan is only valid for Vodafone customers in 4G circles.

At the moment, it is unknown whether Vodafone is capping the voice calls to 250 minutes per day and 1000 minutes per week.

Recently, the government gave final approval to the mega merger of Vodafone and Idea Cellular which will create the country's largest mobile operator with 35 per cent market share and around 430 million subscribers, news agency PTI reported. The move comes just days after Idea Cellular and Vodafone India made a joint payment of Rs 7,268.78 crore 'under protest' to the Department of Telecom (DoT) for merging their mobile businesses.

A senior DoT official privy to the development told PTI, that the final approval has been accorded to the merger and the entities will now approach Registrar of Companies (RoC) for stipulated filings for approval, completing the last leg of formalities.

DoT gave conditional nod to the merger on July 9 and asked the two firms to meet the demand raised for taking the merger on record.

In 2015, Vodafone had merged its four subsidiaries Vodafone East, Vodafone South, Vodafone Cellular and Vodafone Digilink with Vodafone Mobile Services, which is now called Vodafone India. DoT at that time has asked Vodafone to clear OTSC dues worth Rs 6,678 core but the company challenged it in court. Following Supreme Court order, Vodafone had paid only Rs 2,000 crore to get the deal cleared. 

Find your daily dose of news & explainers in your WhatsApp. Stay updated, Stay informed-  Follow DNA on WhatsApp.
Advertisement

Live tv

Advertisement
Advertisement