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Jio introduces free broadband connections, minutes and doubles it's high speed data during the COVID-19 period.

Jio double data and free recharge
India's largest telco provider; Reliance Jio, has introduced a number of measures to help India fight the COVID-19 menace and cushion it's new and existing subscribers as best as possible.
Through Reliance's #CoronaHaaregaIndiajeetega initiative, Jio is now offering free 10 Mbps home broadband connection to it's new subscribers.
All they have to do is pay RS. 2,500 for the home broadband gateway, of which Rs.1500 will be refunded when surrendering the service.
On the other hand, all Jio existing customers will enjoy double high-speed data bundles throughout the Corona period.
This is how dar the telco giant has committed itself towards promoting the Work at Home initiative.
The offer also comes with free non-jio calling minutes as given below:
Jio 4 G         Initial        Current
Voucher.     data.           data
Rs.11.            400 MB.      800 MB
Rs.21.            1 GB.           2 GB.
Rs.51.            3 GB.           6 GB.
Rs.101.          6 GB.           12 GB.
Throughout the world, a number of telco companies are taking various initiatives to Essen the burden that their subscribers are facing during these tough times.
In Kenya, the telco giant Safaricom PLC cancelled all transaction charges on their mobile money platform M-pesa to allow its subscribers send money and make mobile payments for free.
Telkom Kenya has also partnered with Google Loon to provide high speed 4G connectivity across the country, a partnership that Officially announced by the government days ago.
We are closely following up on other telco developments across the world and will update you accordingly.

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