Published 17:52 IST, October 10th 2019

After Jio’s new 6 paise IUC rule, “India with Jio” trends on Twitter

The new Jio ruling about levying 6 paise per second for outgoing calls to other networks ha snow resulted in the creation of "India with Jio" trend.

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Reliance Jio’s decision to pass on burden, of having to shell out 6 paise per minute to outgoing calls me to networks of or operators, to customers, has w resulted in both criticism as well as support for company. focus w is on latter aspect. This has led to creation and trend of “ILoveJio” trend on micro-blogging site Twitter. re is also a separate trend called “India with Jio” that has also been randomly coming up amongst top 10 Twitter trends.  

"India with Jio" - a new trend on social media

Hence, if you are a Reliance Jio user, what is your reaction to telco’s latest ruling of levying 6 paise for every outgoing call minute. Remember that this is applicable to call me from Jio to or networks only. This is t applicable to intra-Jio calls. As far as social media trends are concerned, check out below Twitter trends. A cross-section of Twitterati seem to be completely fine with 6 paise per minute outgoing calls to or networks, but this section seemingly desires “digital freedom”.  

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At this point in time, position of incumbent telcos such as Airtel and Vodafone-Idea is unkwn, with respect to passing on burden of having to pay IUC (of 6 paise per minute) to subscribers. For w, Jio has also come out a list of custom IUC-driven tariff plans that also offer ditional data. se packs from Rs 10 – for prepaid users and offer 1GB 4G data with 124 minutes of free outgoing calls to or networks.  

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17:32 IST, October 10th 2019