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Reliance Jio May Raise Data Prices in 2018: OpenSignal

Jio may put an end to the tariff war with incumbent operators in 2018, and raise data prices next year, according to a new report. This step from Jio would come after over a year of discounted 4G data that have seen the lowest-ever tariffs in the country. While this helped the country go to the top of data consumption chart, it meant an intense war to retain consumers in the telecom industry. We saw an indication of the same in October, when Jio raised the prices of its popular prepaid and postpaid plans in Diwali; the Jio Prime subscription service, which promises the best offers to customers, will end or be renewed in April 2018. Moreover, riding on the Jio wave, 2018 will see India gradually move away from being a developing 4G country, overcoming the hiccups necessary to become a full-grown 4G power, a new report by OpenSignal says. The London-based firm that specialises in crowdsourced wireless coverage mapping all over the world said that Jio's market entry k...