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Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Reliance Jio customers will now have to pay 6 paise per minute for voice calls to other mobile operators

Reliance Jio just announced that its customers will now have to pay 6 paise per minute for voice calls made to non-Jio mobile networks starting from today. This is not charged for incoming calls or calls to landline. Jio also said that it will compensate customers by giving free data of equal value of the top up vouchers. This talk time amount will get deducted at 6 paise per minute when you make outgoing calls to other operators. Top-up vouchers available for Jio customers: IUC Top-Up Voucher Amount (Rs) IUC Minutes (non-Jio mobiles) Free Data Entitlement (GB) 10 124 1 20 249 2 50 656 5 100 1362 10 Post-paid customers will be billed at 6 paise per minute for off-net outgoing calls with increase in free data entitlement to the extent mentioned above. The 6 paisa charge on outgoing off-net mobile calls will continue till TRAI abolishes Interconnect Usage Charge or IUC, which is the cost paid by one mobile telecom operator to another, when its customers make outgoing mobile calls to the other operator’s customers. Jio said that it is hopeful that the IUC charge will be done away with as per the current regulation and that this temporary charge will come to an end by 31st December 2019 and consumers will not have to pay ...