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Good news for Vodafone Idea customers: FUP limits on unlimited prepaid plans removed

The unlimited calling FUP for Vodafone Idea customers was set at 250 calls daily, and 1,000 calls weekly.

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Following the lead of Airtel and Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea has finally done away with the weekly FUP (fair usage policy). 

The unlimited calling FUP for Vodafone Idea customers was set at 250 daily minutes, and 1,000 weekly minutes. Once users hit this limit, they were charged at 1.2 paisa per second or Rs 1 per minute, depending on the circle.

However, the telecom operator has removed the FUP limits on unlimited calling plans, according to BGR India report. 

For system requirement, there will still be FUP of 2,000 daily minutes and 14,000 weekly minutes. However, a day has 1,440 minutes in total and a week has 10,080 minutes so it is impossible to breach the new limit. This means that all your local and national outgoing calls will be completely free.

Recently, the newly merged company introduced minimum monthly recharge plans starting at Rs 35. The plan has been mandatory to extend validity of your phone number. The plans offer some talk time, data and validity. While Rs 35 plan offers 28 days validity, Rs 265 plan offers 84 days validity, full talk time and data.

Plans starting at Rs 169 and going all the way up to Rs 799, offer unlimited local and national calling, daily data of up to 4.5GB, and up to 90 days validity. 

The Vodafone Idea Cellular has also introduced a new prepaid recharge plan priced at Rs. 1499, which offers unlimited calling and data benefits. The yearly plan is valid for 365 days and also includes Vodafone Play subscription and unlimited national roaming.

The plan includes unlimited calling, with  1GB high-speed 3G/4G  data daily and 100 SMSes per day.

The Vodafone plan with compete with Rs 1,699 plan from Reliance Jio. Under this plan, Jio users get unlimited local and national calls without any FUP, and 100 local and national SMS daily. The plan includes access to JioTV, JioMovies and JioSaavn Music, among other apps.

The Jio plan comes with 365 days validity and offers unlimited high-speed data capped at 1.5GB per day. This means that users can download up to 547.5GB data through the validity at 4G speeds. Also, once the daily limit is hit, the speed can be throttled down to 64Kbps until midnight.

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