Airtel cheapest prepaid and postpaid plans post tariff-hike
Both major telecom operators Airtel and Jio are set to increase the prices of their prepaid and postpaid plans. The new plans, their rates, and benefits were notified last week and will be applicable starting tomorrow, July 3. The postpaid users will have to recharge their phones with new plans, once they are over but there is a way through which prepaid users can still save money!
Both Airtel and Jio users have the option of lining up recharge at the same rate instead of the new prices.
Basically, both the telecom operators provide an option of recharging the phone with an existing plan. The new plan is only applied once the existing plan gets over. So, while the users retain the validity of the current plan, they can take advantage of the new plan later as well. This ensures an uninterrupted service.
However, the same catch can be used in the current situation to recharge your phone at the existing rates. Airtel has confirmed that users can recharge for a maximum of 730 days, which is equivalent to almost two years.
“An Airtel customer subscribing to Unlimited calling offer will get accretive validity if the subsequent recharge is done prior to expiry of current recharge, maximum validity accrual can be done for a period of upto 730 days, post which all subsequent accretive recharges will fail,” the telecom operator says on its support page.
Jio, on the other hand, is yet to clarify the specific period for the same.
All of these new plans will remain in queue and will only be effective once the existing plan gets over. Having said that, you will have to recharge your phone before July 3 for these plans to be effective.
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The only other way to save money on your data plans is by observing your consumption patterns more closely and making changes accordingly. For example, if you only consume 1 GB of data everyday but were on a 2GB per day plan, then you can opt for a more affordable plan in the new recharge cycle.
