Vodafone - 999 Lifetime - Postpaid

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Vodafone launched a new Post-paid Plan for 999 (one time charges) for Life-time connection where in CLIP will be charged per month @ 49/- and Local Call @ 80p and STD @ Rs. 1.30.This plan is totally out of proportion with the life-time plan available on other service provider and also with Vodafone Pre-paid customers.In prepaid, customer have to pay only Rs. 299/- to get a lifetime connection and have to recharge with Rs. 200/- every six months to keep the connection alive wherein post-paid Customer Have to shell OUT Rs. 999/- one-time and the on top of that Rs. 49/- (plus tax) as CLIP charges every month. That means, for six month, a postpaid customer have to pay Rs. 330.34 (CLIP charges+ tax) with no talk value where as a pre-paid customer gets 170+ talk value on recharge of Rs. 200/- (nearly full talk-time minus the Service tax) and even this calculation doesn't justify lower local call tariffs i.e. 80p on post-paid, while its Rs. 1 /- on pre-paid lifetime.So, when we equate the gain of 20p in post-paid per call, with loss(minus) CLIP charges for 6 months, A customer need to call atleast N no. of times( at least more than 1600 calls - excluding 12.36% tax) to be equal to pre-paid counterpart. By this, he'll be better off with 333 or 444 plans. So, as per the calculation above (considering the fact that customer have opted for Life-time plan to mostly receive calls) the latest plan 999-lifetime is totally illogical, underplanned plan and needs fine tuning to a greater extent by the planning team and I believe that as both pre-paid and post-paid are your Valuable Customers, there shouldn't be any DISCRIMINATION in offers/plans that are being offered to both.
 
investing 999 in vodafone itself is outrageous. forget the plan:whistle:
 
It would be foolish to opt for vodafone lifetime postpaid plan. if one wants to go for a lifetime postpaid plan in delhi MTNL dolphin is the best bet.
total entry cost is Rs.169 inclusive of taxes.
activation charges nil
no clip charges/month
local calls to own network @Re.0.80 from 7 am to 11pm and Re.0.40 from 11pm to 7 am.
local calls to other networks @Re1.00
all std calls@1.25
local sms@0.25
national sms@1.00
premium sms@1.00
minimum usage of Rs100 every six months required.
optional services
unlimited gprs@349/month
unlimited sms to mtnl network@30/month
unlimited calls to 3 mtnl unmbers@ Rs.50/number/month
cell-cell pack@Rs49 to enjoy all local calls@0.60
 
Vf also has a 'lifelong' plan for 299, renew with atleast Rs 200 every 6 months. 'local calls' (not defined) @ Rs 1/- :confused:. But I dont know what happens if you already have a balance to your credit
 
jus surfin the vodafone website, and was surprised that they have changed the above plan to Zero Rental and no one time charge with Rs. 500 refundable deposit. When I called up Cust Care to enquire - i was told that the plan is not formally launched for subscribers..:confused:
 
Now they've again put the plan - as per my first post - probably after increasing Pre-paid STD rates..
 
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