IUC Top-Up Voucher Amount (Rs)IUC Minutes (non-Jio mobiles)Free Data Entitlement (GB)1012412024925065651001,36210In a first, country's largest telcom operator Reliance Jio today announced that its customers will now have to pay 6 paise per minute for voice calls made to rival phone networks. However, the company also announced that it will compensate customers by giving free data of equal value. Post-paid customers will also be billed at 6 paise per minute for outgoing calls with increase in free data entitlement. This will be the first time that Jio users will pay for voice calls.Jio will provide following top-up vouchers for customers:Jio, however, said these charges are not applicable on calls made by Jio users to other Jio phones and to landline phones and calls made using WhatsApp, FaceTime and other such platforms. Incoming calls from all networks will continue to be free.Justifying the new charges, Jio said it has paid nearly Rs 13,500 crore as IUC charges to the rivals such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea.

Source: Economic Times October 09, 2019 11:04 UTC