> In India, only the caller pays for the call. The callee pays nothing. I say this because I was surprised to learn that in USA, the callee pays.
This was killing telcos like Airtel and Vi until they too adopted Jio’s model: every SIM has a nontrivial monthly charge whether you make calls with it or not. And that price has risen substantially in the last few years and will continue to rise.
It won’t stop affluent Indians but people on more near-median incomes will find keeping extra SIMs unaffordable.
This was killing telcos like Airtel and Vi until they too adopted Jio’s model: every SIM has a nontrivial monthly charge whether you make calls with it or not. And that price has risen substantially in the last few years and will continue to rise.
It won’t stop affluent Indians but people on more near-median incomes will find keeping extra SIMs unaffordable.