Airtel brings in Rs. 995 prepaid plan, Here's why you should ignore this one

Bharti Airtel likes to have a tough competition with its competitors. The telecom company rolls out new plans every now and then to compete against its rival Reliance Jio. Jio has a pretty attractive set of unlimited data packs. To counter that, Airtel comes up with something new or a similar plan. The telecom operator has now released the Rs. 995 pack with unlimited calls and much more.

With this new Rs. 995 prepaid plan, Airtel is offering unlimited calls throughout the country including national roaming. Further, the plan also brings 100 SMSes per day. Interesting the plan comes with a validity of a whopping 180 days. Things look so great till here especially seeing the 180 days validity. Now what if we tell you, you will get only 6GB of 4G/3G data. Yes, you get only 1GB 4G/3G data for 6 months.

It's 2018 and those days are gone when we used to talk about 1GB data per day at least at this price point. We at Beetelbite have analysed a few other packs and we came to a conclusion that the Rs. 995 pack makes no sense.

Here's what we have calculated:

Airtel has a Rs. 509 plan available all over India. The Rs. 509 plan brings unlimited calls, national roaming and 100SMSes per day to the table. The prepaid plan also offers 1.4GB of 4G/3G data per day. Now comes the validity part and to the surprise, the plan is valid for 90days. So, you get a total of 126GB of 4G/3G data in the whole period of your plan. Now if you double up to reach the 180days validity mark, you pay Rs. 1018.

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Now Rs. 1018 might sound a bit expensive to you at first. Look at it like this, you are just paying Rs. 23 extra when compared to the Rs. 995 plan. By just paying Rs. 23 extra, you are getting 42 times the data. In simple terms, in 180days you are getting 252GB of data instead of just 6GB offered in the Rs. 995 plan.