Idea announces free incoming on national roaming from April 1, follows Airtel

In an aggressive move to combat Reliance Jio 4G services, now Idea Celluar has announced free incoming call on nation roaming for its customers starting April 1.

Published: March 13, 2017 4:46 PM IST

By Deepak Gupta

Idea announces free incoming on national roaming from April 1, follows Airtel

In an aggressive move to combat Reliance Jio 4G services, now Idea Celluar has announced free incoming call on nation roaming for its customers starting April 1. These free incoming roaming tarriffs  will be applicable on both prepaid and postpaid connections across Idea 2G, 3G and 4G networks. This move by the telecom operator comes in after Reliance Jio announcments on February 21. Earlier, India’s leading telecom operator Bharti Airte announced free incoming and outgoing roaming calls  on its network last month.

“Effective April 1, 2017, Idea’s 200 million customers will enjoy free incoming calls while roaming on the company’s 2G, 3G and 4G networks across 400,000 towns and villages in the country,” Idea said in a statement. “While the mobile data tariffs and home data pack benefits will be available on national roaming, outgoing calls and SMSes will be made available at “affordable rates”, the teleco added.

Also, the third leading telecom operator in the country has announced unlimited incoming calls, 400 minutes of free outgoing calls, 100 SMS per day and a huge data benefit on international roaming for those travelling to selected destinations. International roaming rates can be costly on general basis with an outgoing call charged at around Rs 150/minute and incoming calls could cost up to Rs 50 per minute, whereas SMS at Rs 15 per text message. The refreshed rates for outgoing calls, alongside value packs for international roaming has been slashed, bringing the cost down up to 85 per cent.

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“The packs start at Rs 1,199 for 10 days and go up to Rs 5,999 for 30 days validity,” the statement said. Idea also introduced a 10-day pack for short-travel duration and for longer stay, a 30-day pack will be made introduced to choose as well. These internationl roaming value packs come with free 1GB/2GB/3GB data with charges as low as Rs 3 per MB.

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