Reliance Jio has develop into the primary cell operator to return out with a month-to-month rental pay as you go plan, which recharges on the identical date of each month, no matter the variety of days.

The corporate has launched a Rs 259 plan, which affords limitless calls, 1.5 GB information and 100 SMSes per day with a validity of 1 month.

As an illustration, if a consumer recharges with the brand new Rs 259 month-to-month plan on March 5, the subsequent recurring recharge dates could be April 5, Could 5 and so forth.

The launch follows a January 27 directive from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), which had requested all of the telecom operators to supply pay as you go subscribers at the very least one plan voucher, one particular tariff voucher and one combo voucher, which shall be renewable on the identical date of each month.

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are but to adjust to the directive as the businesses had sought extra time from Trai for implementation.

Trai had given 60 days to telcos to implement the directive.

With the launch of month-to-month rental plans, pay as you go subscribers may also be capable of avail postpaid-like billing cycle, the place invoice is generated each month no matter the variety of days in a month.

At the moment, many of the pay as you go tariff packs include a predefined validity interval of 28/56/84 days, however the regulator has acquired a number of references and complaints relating to the 28-day validity pack, which is touted as a month-to-month pack.

Prospects have highlighted that with the 28-day validity pack, which is probably the most outstanding tariff plan, they need to do 13 recharges a yr. If the recharge may be completed on a month-to-month foundation, solely 12 recharges need to be completed in a yr.