Here's how Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio is the biggest disruption for the Telecom Industry

Reliance Jio has brought down the data tariff to Rs. 50 per GB with no upfront payments. Reliance claims that it is the lowest data rate in the world. Recently other telecom operators like Airtel had brought down their data tariffs but with upfront payment. Average tariff for data in the market is Rs. 250 per GB.

Jio services in the beginning could be availed only through company’s own LYF mobiles and then Jio partnered with many smartphone makers in the country to offer their free services to customers. Jio has now announced VoLTE phones for as low as Rs. 2999.

While telecom operators have accused Reliance Jio of poaching their customers Jio has gone ahead and made sure that it gets easier for the new operator to lap up as many subscribers as possible. Apart from the super competitive tariff plans, Jio has launched instant aadhar based quick activation that starts in Delhi and Mumbai. Tariff plans have been chalked out with just about ten plans to choose from. Jio has also announced special discounts for students with 25% more data on same plan and launched a Platinum service as well.

Reliance Jio has got a lot of flak from telecom operators for its free services but it only seems to have pushed Jio towards more free services. Jio does not stop at free voice service and affordable data rates, it has announced overall free services till December 2016. Importantly from the 5th of September Jio sims will be available for everyone and all Jio customers can avail Jio services for free.