Reliance Jio users now have the facility to get instant high-speed data on loan and pay for it later. The scheme is being called ‘Emergency Data Loan‘.
The latest offering by Jio is aimed to allow its prepaid subscribers to get up to five data loan packs of 1GB each — 5GB in total.
For this added data, users would be allowed to pay at a later stage, thereby allowing users who have exhausted the allocated data under their pack and are unable to purchase add-on data packs to still access the internet.
Each emergency data loan pack that carries 1GB of high-speed data access is valued at Rs 11 and is valid until the validity of the base plan, which means you can continue to use the additional data until the completion of your base plan’s validity.
However, a user does need to have an active prepaid base plan to be able to avail this emergency data loan facility.
The emergency data loan facility can be accessed through the MyJio app on the phone, and once in the app, they would need to go to the menu.
Steps on how you can avail the emergency data loan:
- Open MyJio App and go to menu on top left of the page
- Select ‘Emergency Data Loan’ under mobile services
- Click ‘Proceed’ on the emergency data loan banner
- Select ‘Get emergency data’ option
- Click ‘Activate now’ to get the emergency loan benefit
- Emergency data loan benefit is activated.
The payment for this loan can also be made via the MyJio app. However, the company has not yet disclosed details regarding the exact time by when the users would be required to pay for the loan.
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