Reliance Jio extends free data offer to March 2017

Reuters: Reliance Industries said its telecoms unit Jio will extend its free data service to all new and existing customers till March 2017, in a bid to attract more customers to its 4G telecom service amid stiff competition from incumbents.

Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, said in a live feed on YouTube on Thursday that all its new customers from December 4 onwards will get free voice and data till March 31, 2017. The free offer was earlier valid till December 31.

He said Jio has already crossed 50 million customers in the three months since launch on September 1.

The company also announced a rollout of Jio Money Merchant Solutions, a mobile payments application, for enabling digital payments for small merchants at their various point of transactions.