What's the minimum recharge to send SMS on Vodafone Idea/Airtel/Reliance Jio/BSNL?

[Tejas01]

What about 79 rupee plan that has talktime and validity? Would it also not work for making outgoing calls?

That would work for 28 days after recharge till expiry of validity. Incase of expiry of talktime, further deductions would be made from your main balance for calls, data till 28 days if no recharge made.
No outgoing sms. For that, minimum ₹128 recharge.

 

[Sushubh]

that's what i am asking coz the first post says this:

Every private telecom operator in India (Jio, Vi, Airtel) has stopped outgoing calls and SMS without active packs. You can no longer use your balance for outgoing calls or sms..

i am asking for my househelp who does not need sms. but needs to make outgoing calls.

 

[ijsa]

Source


Outgoing call Talktime is there.

 

[Sushubh]

so i would need to do a 79 recharge once a month and rest of the times i can do the 100 rupee topup? i guess this is manageable.

 

[Tejas01]

To put in simple words, you help would need some amount of main balance. To avail telephony services he will have to do a minimum recharge of ₹79. The main balance would be used if he expires his ₹64 talktime and he doesn't do any recharge upto 28 days.

 

[Tejas01]

@Sushubh yup. Infact if he doesn't touch his main balance he just needs to do ₹79 recharge per month.
This is what I do for my Dad. He has Airtel as secondary. He has ₹190 as main balance and I recharged ₹79 last month just to keep card active. He won't use it for calls or for anything.

 

[Sushubh]

heh. calls to nepal from india are still shit expensive. around 8 bucks per minute. i have told him to leave a smartphone at his place so that he can do internet calls for free. but he won't agree.

 

[Tejas01]

The way things are progressing with this ARPU and crap, it won't be long before ISD(assuming calls to NEpal are under ISD) will rise. Perhaps then it would make more sense to make internet calls.

 

[Sushubh]

only a few countries are expensive. and not surprisingly, the ones which have a lot of migrants working in and from india. uae is 13 rupee per minute it seems. bangladesh is just 3 rupee per minute.

 

[Deb_1]

have you guys found any trick/loophole of this problem? I need to send just one sms, for that 128 rupees is damm expensive.