News Indians can soon buy only voice, SMS recharge vouchers

So because of this move from TRAI, Base price has gone further up. No Wonder its TRAI....errr TROY the famed trojan horse.
Can someone do a comparison of plans offered by these cos.
 
Airtel, Jio and Vi’s new voice and SMS prepaid plans must pass TRAI test

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Jio, Airtel and Vi Every Voice and SMS Packs Listed

TRAI mandated the telcos to bring such plans because of the tariff hikes they implemented and as a result, it became expensive for users to keep SIM active.
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TRAI Clarifies SIM Card Validity Rules Amid Circulating Claims in Media

TRAI's clarification on misleading reports about 90-day SIM validity. No new rules have been issued.
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Airtel Removes Voice And SMS-Only Plans From Website, Calls It A 'Technical Glitch'

Airtel says that the listing of two new prepaid plans was due to a technical glitch. The same has been taken down from the website.
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I have a jio no. without any validity plan. Last recharged about 3 months or so ago. I tried to recharge a 50 rs talktime today just so that they don't disconnect the number, but it says without a validity plan talktime recharge not possible. So what's the absolute minimum validity recharge of jio? Like any 1-day or similar ones?
 

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sauravghosh said:
I have a jio no. without any validity plan. Last recharged about 3 months or so ago. I tried to recharge a 50 rs talktime today just so that they don't disconnect the number, but it says without a validity plan talktime recharge not possible. So what's the absolute minimum validity recharge of jio? Like any 1-day or similar ones?
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There was 189 plan with 2GB and 28days validity which is removed from their value plans
Lowest I could find is 198 for 2GB/day and 14days validity or 209 for 1GB/day with 22 days validity
Trai is a useless organization better to shut it down
 
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198 rupees and 14 days validity is a costly plan. It's 14 rupees per day. There's an 899 and 90 days validity plan with 2GB/day+20GB extra for the plan which comes out to ~10 rupees per day.

edit: I know people are searching for minimum validity plans but why give extra money to these companies? instead of charging every 14 days, charge once in 90 days. everyone except amazon and jio charges some platform fee of 1.5 rupees.
 
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Thanks. Those are really costly plans. I see some data validity plans in their app like 19 or 29 rupees. These are not considered as validity plans? My goal is to just be able to recharge a 50 rs talktime plan.
 

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Thanks. Those are really costly plans. I see some data validity plans in their app like 19 or 29 rupees. These are not considered as validity plans? My goal is to just be able to recharge a 50 rs talktime plan.
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These are data add on plans, that are valid for x days. This will work only when your original sim continues to be valid. ie.) It doesn't increase your sim validity, it only increases the amount of data you can use.

Cheers..!
 
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sauravghosh said:
Thanks. Those are really costly plans. I see some data validity plans in their app like 19 or 29 rupees. These are not considered as validity plans? My goal is to just be able to recharge a 50 rs talktime plan.
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I think this is probably the cheapest validity plan. It has no data. Comes out to 5.5 rupees a day.
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If you meant these plans, they only add talktime to an active validity plan. Like example, you have a plan with limited talktime and use it up, these plans are used to top that with unlimited talktime validity = validity of your original plan.
I remembered I had that 10 rupees talktime added to my account years back and it has unlimited validity. It will expire only when you use it up.
 
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NikhilSingh25 said:
I have to recharge 4 numbers, 299 for 28 days *4 = 1196, I get 1.5Gb daily on all numbers which are rarely used like once or twice a month.
I got a WIFI that gives 400Mbps unlimited data for 1170, And that's what everyone at my home uses.
It's absurd that from a household perspective we have to pay almost 1200 only to make a few calls.
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On same boat,
 
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NikhilSingh25 said:
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Earlier their used to be only one mobile phone in one household. These corporations sure does know how to make people overpay.
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Because mobile phones today have become necessity.
When we were kids and even after getting 2 to 3 hours late from schools, etc. parents wont worry.
But nowadays, if kids get late by 15 or more minutes entire family gets panic.

Its the easiest/fasted way to communicate in everyday life.
No wonder corporate greed mints more money on necessity then luxury.
 
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Futureized said:
phones today have become necessity.
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its forced necessity, at least for banking transactions.. there should be no enforced need for otp to login.. otp for transaction aproval..
you have to have constant number just for it.
therefore you have to keep that number active .. therefore forever charges..
 
and even after paying so much, I'm considering not just another sim but another phone. it get's annoying when i have to look for personal or work images/doc in my phone. since both are flooding my phone's storage.
 
it should be proven by now that otp's cant stop cyber crimes. maybe reduce a little.
but for that little safety entire population's banking have been forced to adapt..
who's the real beneficiary here?
 
Our government lacks the intention to prosecute crimes and people taking bribes. Despite knowing all wrong doings they are still enabling it. They do act in earnest when things suit them, but not for general welfare of the voting public.

If you try to go via the judiciary way, that is another hell-hole as you would be fighting a case with several adjournments with no end in sight, wishing you didn't approach the courts in the first place. In India the process is the punishment!

As regards an OTP mechanism, we can use an app based TOTP generator like Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, Google Authenticator etc. instead of an SMS based OTP.
 
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it should be proven by now that otp's cant stop cyber crimes. maybe reduce a little.
but for that little safety entire population's banking have been forced to adapt..
who's the real beneficiary here?
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So you have all the data of entire population of India using banking services & you have conducted a deep analysis using past & future prediction models to reach the conclusion that using otp only results in little safety for entire population?

Emperor said:
Punishment & Fear of Punishment can only stop crimes ... take Saudi Arabia Govt. System as example.
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Saudi Arabia is not a democracy.

sporkydork said:
As regards an OTP mechanism, we can use an app based TOTP generator like Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, Google Authenticator etc. instead of an SMS based OTP.
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Those with the technical knowhow of how to use TOTP generators already know enough to not fall into typical online frauds. How will TOTP or ubikey or anything would help if the person believe he is being called by a cop/income tax officer/judge/cbi officer etc because of some wrong thing he did in the past (& there are many such ppl) or he believe phishing website to be genuine?
 
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