Reliance Jio Infocomm will make domestic off-grid voice calls free starting January 1 as the Interconnect Usage Charge (IUC) on these services ends. Domestic voice calls over the network have always been free on the Jio network. This is in accordance with the instructions of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), with the Bill and Keep scheme to be implemented in the country from January 1, 2021, thus ending the IUC for all. national voice calls. Over the past year, Reliance Jio has billed customers 6 pais per minute for voice calls made to competing phone networks, but compensated subscribers by providing them with free data of equal value.
The company kept its promise: Jio
As a reminder, in September 2019, when TRAI extended the deadline to implement the Bill & Keep scheme beyond January 1, 2020, Jio had to start billing its customers for off-network voice calls, at a rate exactly equivalent. . to the applicable IUC charge. In doing so, Jio assured its users that this charge would only continue until such time as TRAI abolished the IUC charges. “Today, Jio delivered on that promise and made off-net voice calls free again,” the company said in a press release. Jio added that he was strongly committed to making the Common Indian the beneficiary of advanced technologies like VoLTE. Reliance Jio added a total of 2,22 million new mobile customers, bringing its total subscriber base to 406,3 million in October. In the landline segment, Reliance Jio added the most subscribers with 2,45,912.