They will not make a u-turn on the statement of charging for IUC to calls made to other wireless operators but what they will surely do is hike the overall price of all unlimited packs by a universal 20-25% which will ultimately work out to the same cost as Jio plans plus IUC top up per month.It was his speculation, operators are trolling Jio over IUC through through messages, calls, social media, they are not stupid to make a U-turn after doing this.
What is the gain for running 2g ?After converters most of the 3G & 2G spectrum to 4G, Why AVOID can't give Jio phone like devices to their 2G customers with reasonalble price?
This comparison is not fair. TRAI put out many restrictions on free services post Jio's launch. Also other telecos paid thousands of crores for spectrums of previous generation including what Mr Ambani did for RCom. Jio had the monopoly on its official launch based on its customer base and spectrums.
But they don't need to subside cost when existing customer case is happy with their 2G handset. Also budget 4G handset like Jio Phone are glitchy piece of garbage. A good handset from Nokia would have cost 3-4k. So now should they subsidize 4G handset for negative ARPU?What is the gain for running 2g ?
I don’ttrust the avoid theory that they still have not recovered 2g cost.
Secondly , 40 crores 2g customers of avoid are not getting special rates or discounted voice tariffs.
2g users will upgrade to 4g handsets once 2g is closed.
Avoid can protect its 2g customer base by providing subsidise 4g handsets & plans
Avoid needs to reduce network cost . Close down 2g/3g & come at equal platform to compete against Jio.
That too for 2G data...