The Reliance communication has gone ahead and has offered 4G services to its CDMA users at an eye popping tariff of Rs.93.97 for 10GB, even as telecom users have been keenly waiting for 4G data prices to come down in a bold move. The new plans also comes with 1 GB of 2G or 3G data and 150 minutes of local or national calls and unlimited calls with the RCom network.
The existing customers both prepaid and postpaid to make use of the plan have to trade in their existing SIMs with 4G compliant one. The move comes in the wake of RCom’s decision in April to shut down the struggling CDMA business and is likely a hook for the users to upgrade to 4G before the customers are offered to move to the company’s GSM service, where it has already tied up with will be catapulted by Reliance Jio to offer 4G plans.
This means RCom will shortly start roaming on Jio’s 4G network is coming very closer to shutting down its CDMA network.
Meanwhile the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch has told that they are estimating that RCom will close its CDMA network by 2-3 months and they are also anticipating RCom to suspend this offering after the CDMA subscriber migration.
