Jio Prime Subscription To Close Soon: Here Are The Benefits On Offer

Soon, your last chance to subscribe to Jio's 'Prime' scheme will be gone. Reliance Jio, which last month announced its decision to start charging its customers from April 1, 2017, will close its limited time offer on March 31, 2017. So, you better hurry if you're still evaluating various benefits being offered by Reliance Industries' telecom arm - Jio. Join Jio Prime to "continue unlimited fun for 1 year", the new entrant telecom operator - which competes with the likes of Airtel, Vodafone and Idea - said on its website. Simply put: pay a one-time Rs 99 till March 31 for membership and thereafter, Rs 303 per month to enjoy "unlimited voice, data, SMS, apps", among other offers, as per Jio's website.

After paying the one-time Prime membership fee, subscribers can choose from a variety of packs priced between Rs 19 and Rs 9,999 - all of which include free calls and 100 SMS, among other benefits such as subscription to Jio Apps. Jio's free voice calls offering includes local calls, STD calls and roaming calls (incoming and outgoing) to any network pan-India. Customers can also subscribe to the Prime scheme using 'Jiomoney', the company's digital payments solution. Jio is offering a Rs 50 cashback on payments of the one-time fee of Rs 99 and recharges starting Rs 303, the website added. (Read: Jio prepaid users can get up to 120GB extra data)

Here's what you get:

Jio's Rs 303 pack, the "best-selling" offer as per the Jio website, includes free voice calls and 1GB of high-speed data, beyond which "speed will throttle to 128Kbps". Jio's Rs 303 pack includes daily 100 SMS and additional 5GB data worth Rs 201.

Under a "top rated" pack, priced at a higher Rs 499, customers get 2 GB of high speed data per day, instead of 1GB in the Rs 303 pack, and an additional 10GB "Data Booster" worth Rs 301. Also, a "best value" Rs 149 pack includes 2GB of data.

Both the Rs 303 and Rs 499 packs come with a validity of 28 days, the website added.