[kamaal]

Whoa! That's expensive.

One of the reason for India's economic success in the digital age is awesome and affordable telecommunications infrastructure.

You can't run a good start up ecosystem, or even a decent economic ecosystem without these things these days.

[baybal2]

Jio is cheaper per Gigabyte, but they wouldn't let you spend all your quota in a day. That's the trick

[rohit2412]

But jio is also cheaper by a factor of 10-20. It is unbelievable pricing, they cannot be subsidizing it by 90%, and they probably don't have 90% margin initially, after including infrastructure costs.

[baybal2]

Factor of 10???

China mobile Pakistan - 200 Gb package for $65

Jio - ~30 gb for $6 a month, you can't humanly consume exactly 1.5 Gb per day.

200 : 65 = ~3.1

30 : 6 = ~5

Best case scenario, 45 : 6 = 7.5

So it is twice as cheap, but not by a factor of 10

[evozer]

OP said $5 for 84 days though, not a month.

[baybal2]

I missed that, than ...it's true.

I'm shedding bitter tears.

[tushar-r]

>you can't humanly consume exactly 1.5 Gb per day.

Why not? Stream at high def for a few hours and you should be done.

[kamaal]

They don't have to :)

Seriously, you need to watch like a HD movie everyday to exhaust that kind of quota. Unless you are flush with money and entirely jobless, you won't exactly be spending hours of your time everyday doing this.

But cheap plans let you use things like Google Maps, Collaborate over WhatsApp, Send recieve/picture videos etc. That kind of stuff is important for productivity for an economy. Especially for everyday business people this works wonders.