This big offer for Jio users after the lockdown increases till 3 May
After Airtel, Voda-Idea, now Jio has also increased the validity of its prepaid users till May 3. After increasing the validity, the existing prepaid customers of Jio will continue to receive incoming calls even after the validity of the old plan is over. Jio has said in a statement that it will not only benefit low-income users, but also every user who is unable to recharge their account due to some reason.
Also, the company has also informed that from April 20, most of their retail outlets will start opening. This decision has been taken by the government after releasing the new guidelines.
Earlier, Vodafone-Idea also announced to increase the validity of its customers who are unable to recharge their account due to lockdown. Let us tell you that before the lockdown, the duration of the phase was kept till 14 April and now it has been extended till 3 May.
Similarly, Bharti Airtel has also decided to increase the validity of its nearly 30 million customers by 3 May, people who are not able to recharge their accounts.
All telecom companies are taking various measures to recharge the number. Companies are also giving cashback on recharging accounts of other customers through digital platforms. This cashback offer is being given on recharging those accounts, which are not able to recharge their number through digital platforms.
Talking as an example, Jio has launched the JioPOS Lite app on the Google Play Store, so that existing users can get 4 percent cashback on every recharge by recharging others.
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To help those who are struggling to recharge their mobile account, telecom companies have also started taking help of banks. Airtel has launched a new facility, so that customers can recharge their accounts from many ATMs, post offices, grocery stores and drug stores.
Telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have announced to extend the prepaid account validity till 3 May. It is known that due to increase in the number of corona infects in India, the government has extended the lockdown till 3 May.
Earlier both Airtel and Vodafone Idea had increased the account validity of the customers till 17 April and also offered a talk time of Rs 10. Now after increasing the lockdown period, both companies have again increased the account validity of prepaid users till May 3 for free.
While Vodafone Idea has said that this step will benefit 90 million low-income feature phone users, on the other hand, Airtel has said that low-income is increasing the validity of customers’ accounts.
Let us tell you that these two companies have a minimum recharge policy, under which after a user’s current plan expires, he stops receiving incoming calls after seven days. Now in a new press release, Airtel has said that to help around 30 million customers who are unable to recharge their mobile number during lockdown, the company has decided to extend prepaid account validity till 3 May 2020. .
This means that even after such customers do not have an active recharge plan, they will continue to receive incoming voice calls.
On the other hand, in case of Vodafone Idea, in the first phase of the lockdown, the company had increased the account validity for free till April 17 and offered a talk time of Rs 10.
Now the company has extended the incoming service to about 90 million low-income prepaid customers using feature phones till 3 May. The company has said that incoming validity extension will be credited to the account of eligible users. With this initiative, low-income feature phone users will be able to stay connected with the local authority and their families.