Jio prepaid to postpaid migration - experience

[Lobogris]

Yup, I had the same experience. You need to pay a ₹349 deposit and then you’re set within 10 minutes. I migrated all 4 numbers in my family (all in my name) to postpaid and the process was seamless. Luckily you don’t need a sim swap, as 2 of the numbers are used by my parents who live in another city.
There’s a limit that you can’t migrate more than 2 numbers belonging to the same person in one day, so I had to visit the store twice.

I don’t see any benefit whatsoever in postpaid. What if one of those 4 people doesn’t need that SIM for a month or two as they have gone abroad or are in some area where there is better coverage from Airtel or Vodafone? Why commit to paying every month when you have the choice to pay as you need? I could understand it if they gave you cheaper plans or more data. With prepaid you can switch to any provider based on your location and need without hassle.

 

[thescurvydawg]

That is your opinion. All 4 numbers in my family need coverage for SMS/OTP even when abroad. 199 plus tax is a meagre amount. The reason I couldn't stand prepaid was the repeated SMS for minor things (In 2 languages), the daily data limit etc. Most days I use no data (At home on Wifi) and some days, I need to use more than 1/5/2Gb data and I can't be bothered with topups etc. Postpaid is pay and forget, which suits all of us fine.

 

[shubhanyu]

Any differences in data speed/ bandwidth provisioned between prepaid and postpaid?

 

[Deleted member 78069]

@shubhanyu didn't notice much of a difference. I don't think they provide priority access like airtel and vodafone Idea do for some of their plans.

 

[Sudarshan61]

That is your opinion. All 4 numbers in my family need coverage for SMS/OTP even when abroad. 199 plus tax is a meagre amount. The reason I couldn't stand prepaid was the repeated SMS for minor things (In 2 languages), the daily data limit etc. Most days I use no data (At home on Wifi) and some days, I need to use more than 1/5/2Gb data and I can't be bothered with topups etc. Postpaid is pay and forget, which suits all of us fine.

Prepaid also have International roaming on standard paygo rates. (same rates as postpaid)
You can always top-up with yearly packs and some data pack and forget.

Eg. Two top up of Rs1000. i.e 2000 gives you 200GB of data (to be used as you wish) + 1690 talktime.
use the talktime to do a recharge of Rs1299
You get validation of 336 days + in total 224 GB of talktime + approx balance of Rs390 to be used for your International usage....

Postpaid is never cost effective in India. they are loot