{"id":901009,"date":"2025-01-30T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=901009"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:43:16","slug":"jios-new-voice-and-sms-only-plans-face-consumer-backlash-data-add-ons-not-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/30\/jios-new-voice-and-sms-only-plans-face-consumer-backlash-data-add-ons-not-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jio\u2019s new voice and SMS-only plans face consumer backlash: Data add-ons not allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio recently introduced new voice and SMS-only plans, but they haven\u2019t been well received by many users. Consumers have expressed frustration, arguing that in today\u2019s digital age, data is an essential need, and any recharge plan that doesn\u2019t include data feels like a pointless purchase. <\/p>\n<p>Now a TelecomTalk report states that the operator does not allow customers with these plans to recharge with data boosters or data packs. This was further confirmed by Jio on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio recently introduced new voice and SMS-only plans, but they haven\u2019t been well received by many users. Consumers have expressed frustration, arguing that in today\u2019s digital age, data is an essential need, and any recharge plan that doesn\u2019t include data feels like a pointless purchase. Now a TelecomTalk report states that the operator does not allow customers with these plans to recharge with data boosters or data packs. This was further confirmed by Jio on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}