Airtel Takes on Jio With ‘Free Data Coupons’ Offer for Prepaid Users

Bharti Airtel appears to have discontinued its Rs. 2,398 pay as you go recharge plan that got here with a validity of 365 days, and provided 1.5GB day by day high-speed information and limitless voice calling advantages. As a results of the brand new replace, the telco now simply has the Rs. 2,498 pay as you go recharge plan as its providing to supply limitless voice calls and high-speed information advantages for 365 days. Airtel can also be individually discovered to tackle Reliance Jio by bringing its free information coupons to supply as much as 6GB of high-speed information entry to its pay as you go customers.

The Rs. 2,398 Airtel pay as you go recharge plan is now not listed via the Airtel website, as initially spotted by OnlyTech. The pay as you go plan can also be not accessible for buy via any third-party recharge channel together with Google Pay and Paytm.

Airtel had introduced the Rs. 2,398 pay as you go recharge plan as part of its tariff revision in December final yr. The plan provided 1.5GB high-speed information every day along with limitless voice calls and 100 SMS messages per day for 365 days. However, the sooner providing was overshadowed by the Rs. 2,498 pay as you go plan that debuted in May with advantages comparable to 2GB high-speed information per day, limitless voice calls, and 100 SMS messages for 365 days.

The departure of the Rs. 2,398 pay as you go plan is probably going to assist Airtel improve its common income per person (ARPU) over time as it will convey a further Rs. 100 for every recharge of the Rs. 2,498 plan.

It is necessary to notice that regardless of discontinuing the Rs. 2,398 plan and making its Rs. 2,498 plan as the one providing with 365 days validity, Airtel remains to be providing a less expensive long-term plan over Jio’s Rs. 2,599 plan that gives nearly an identical advantages — however at a further Rs. 100 cost.

Alongside the Rs. 2,398 plan discontinuation, Airtel has silently launched a brand new “Free Data Coupons” provide to supply its pay as you go subscribers with information coupons. These coupons, as spotted by OnlyTech, can be found with limitless plans of Rs. 219 and above via the Airtel Thanks app.

As per the main points available on the phrases and situations web page of the Airtel website, the information coupons will probably be supplied to “pre-selected” pay as you go customers. The Airtel Thanks app will get a My Coupons choice to checklist all of the coupons supplied to a person.

For Rs. 219, Rs. 249, Rs. 279, Rs. 298, Rs. 349, and Rs. 398 pay as you go recharge plans, Airtel will provide two coupons of 1GB high-speed information with every carrying a validity of 28 days. The Rs. 399, Rs. 449, and Rs. 558 pay as you go plans, then again, will probably be given with 4 1GB coupons, every legitimate for 56 days. Furthermore, the Rs. 598 and Rs. 698 pay as you go plans will get six coupons of 1GB high-speed information and 84 days validity.

“Only users chosen [on] basis the eligibility criteria set by Airtel will be credited Data Coupons. There is no limit to numbers of daily winners but one user can be judged [the] winner only once throughout the contest,” reads one of many situations of the provide.

Airtel appears to be planning to make a proper announcement of its Free Data Coupons provide within the coming days. The transfer appears to tackle Jio’s coupons which can be accessible via the MyJio app.

We have reached out to Airtel for readability on each developments and can replace this report as soon as we hear again.

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