Private investments are important for the economy and there is no denial that Jio made the internet prices cheaper when we used to pay 199 for a GB of 2/3G to Airtel. What I am saying is they should allowed BSNL to grow as well along with the private players because BSNL is still the only coverage available in certain hill regions, with this restriction those consumers are forced to use slow internet while the private players are making loads of money.
It was a marketing strategy by Jio, as in the initial days they were offering free unlimited internet service for a whole year. They later on made this scam of getting 28 days of recharge normal. And now they are increasing the 28-day tariffs at regular intervals. This happened because our government allowed a duopoly in telecom rather than keeping a Competitive Market. If you look at the domestic aviation industry, you will see a monopoly by IndiGo. If the opposition party was good, then they could have used these issues to disrupt the government.
If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.
Jio did it with free calls, phones etc. similarly all the foreign AI companies providing cheap and free services to students and everyone is thrilled about it.
Most of the Indians never cared about the privacy or anyone selling their data as long as they get a rupee as cashbacks, that is the state of our country so we can't expect them to be the west where people really take the privacy and data collected by anyone seriously.
And if you guys didn't know, Jio and airtel planned to increase their tarrif 15% very soon and they already removed many existing packs. If you are jio users, you can have upto 2 recharge in the same price at queu or they announced something called price lockup if you pay 300 for a whole year so you can recharge the current price instead of the new one.
