SuperNight pack: Vodafone counters Jio with unlimited internet at Rs 6/hour

SuperNight packs will enable users to download unlimited data for five hours at a fixed price

 

Vodafone India on Monday announced a new product -- Vodafone SuperNight -- with immediate effect for prepaid customers.

According to the company, the new product at Rs 29 will enable unlimited 3G/4G data usage and download for five hours.

"The pack can be activated any time of the day but will be applicable only during the subsequent five hours between 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.," it said in a statement.

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Vodafone is offering Internet access between 1am and 6am at Rs 29 a day. This comes out to less than Rs. 6 per hour.In contrast, Reliance Jio’s services cost about Rs. 10 per day for 1GB of 4G data.

The recharge pack can be purchased anytime during the day, but will kick in at 1 am only. The new SuperNight pack is available to purchase from digital channels, offline outlets, and via the *444*4# USSD code.....More Plans

Indian smartphone sales to double by 2020: Report

Smartphone sales in India will double to 200 million a year by 2020 but they will be less than half the number sold in China, according to Euromonitor International.

The US smartphone market will shrink in the coming years, letting India overtake it in 2018. India will become the world’s second largest smartphone market by value in 2019.

India’s smartphone sales will touch 231.5 million in 2021, up from from 102.4 million in 2016. Sales in the US will shrink to 127.3 million from 147.9 million this year and Chinese sales will grow marginally from 440.3 million in 2016 to 460.4 million in 2021.

Most handsets sold in China and the US now are repeat purchases, unlike in India where sales are driven by buyers switching from feature phones to smartphones. Most handset makers, including market leader Samsung, have launched cheap smartphones in India to tap this segment.

“India and Indonesia provide untapped opportunity for smartphones due to the huge pool of feature-phone upgrades,” said Wee Teck Loo, head of consumer electronics at read more..

Jio launches mother of all telecom battles

Thirteen years after its first disruptive effort in telecom, popularly known as “monsoon hungama”, Reliance Industries (RIL) is seeking to change the rules of the game again. Addressing shareholders at the company’s 42nd annual general meeting on Thursday, RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani started his speech with: “… today, RIL will write history.” For the next one-and-a-half hours, he tried to walk the talk by unveiling a tariff plan for Reliance Jio aiming to reconfigure the telecom industry’s revenue composition.

Jio announced “always” free voice calls and priced data at Rs 50/GB, 80 per cent lower than the current industry average of Rs 250/GB. The company also announced the launch of 4G handsets priced at Rs 3,999 and personal routers at Rs 1,999. By owning the entire ecosystem, Jio, backed by the might of Reliance’s footprint across retail and content programming — news, entertainment and movies — is armed with a complete offering for the mobile broadband consumer.

From September 5, everyone will be able to access the service, which will still be free till the end of the year.

Jio will offer data plans starting at Rs 19 a day for occasional users, Rs 149 a month for low data users and Rs 4,999 a month for read more..