BSNL has made a way to keep the SIM active for 6 months for its crores of users. The company has a cheap plan with a validity of 180 days, in which users get many benefits including unlimited calling, data.
BSNL has many cheap recharge plans with long validity. The public sector telecom company can launch its 5G service in June this year. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has made preparations for this. To upgrade the network, the company has planned to install 1 lakh new 4G mobile towers, out of which 81 thousand mobile towers have been installed. BSNL has posed a challenge to private telecom companies for some time now. The company has a 180-day plan, in which users get many other benefits including unlimited calling and data.
180 day plan
For this plan of BSNL, users have to spend less than Rs 5 daily. This plan of BSNL comes at a price of Rs 897. In this prepaid recharge plan, users get a validity of 180 days i.e. full 6 months, in which unlimited outgoing calls can be made from the phone. Apart from this, users also get the benefit of free incoming calls and roaming. BSNL users also get the benefit of free national roaming in all states including MTNL network of Delhi and Mumbai.
BSNL is offering 100 free SMS daily along with unlimited calling in this prepaid plan. Apart from this, a total of 90GB high speed data is offered to the users. Users can use this data without any daily limit. Even after the data limit is exhausted, users will get the benefit of unlimited internet at the speed of 40kbps.
Vi’s 180 day plan
Apart from BSNL, only Vodafone Idea (Vi) has a plan with 180 days validity. The other two private telecom companies do not have any such plan. Also, BSNL gives free access to BiTV to all its mobile users, in which users can watch more than 450 live TV channels for free. Also, subscription to many OTT apps will also be available. Airtel and Jio offer plans with 84 days and 98 days validity to their users.