BSNL Monsoon Offer on Prepaid Recharge Plans: Now Get Up To 200% Extra Data

Nowadays it is extremely common to see a telecom company announce a new scheme, every other day. Now it is the turn of the state owned telecom mogul BSNL to announce a new offer for its prepaid customers. The company had announced a slew of offers in the recent few weeks to combat competition from Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone and its new offer, dubbed as “Monsoon offer” is the latest to join the list.
The Monsoon offer, as the name suggests is a limited period offer that lasts from 18th of June to the 16th of August 2018. This offer sees the mobile data that is being offered to customers being tripled or being close to tripled during this period.
This seems to be a ploy by BSNL to counter Reliance Jio, who had recently announced “Double Dhamaka” scheme under which users have their mobile data limits doubled for the validity period. This was also a limited period offer. It is fair to say that BSNL has gone one step further than Reliance Jio by tripling the data benefits for users. This will surely ensure that BSNL is able to retain its customers.

Monsoon offer Prepaid Plans:

1) Plan 186: 1GB mobile data is now tripled to 3GB mobile data

2) Plan 429: 1GB mobile data is now tripled to 3GB mobile data
3) Plan 485: 1.5GB mobile data is now 3.5GB mobile data
4) Plan 666: 1.5GB mobile data is now 3.5GB mobile data
5) Plan 999:  1GB mobile data is now tripled to 3GB mobile data
The difference in the above plans is the validity periods, which are longer as the price increases.

Monsoon offer and Special Tariff Voucher (STV) schemes:

Apart from the previously mentioned prepaid schemes, the Monsoon Offer is also applicable on the following Special Tariff Voucher (STV) schemes:
1) STV 187: 1GB mobile data is now tripled to 3GB mobile data
2) STV 333: 3GB mobile data is now 5GB mobile data
3) STV 349: 1GB mobile data is now tripled to 3GB mobile data
4) STV 444: 4GB mobile data is now 6GB mobile data
5) STV 447: 1GB mobile data is now tripled to 3GB mobile data
This limited period offer, which lasts for 60 days, can be availed throughout the country except in the Mumbai and Delhi mobile circle. It is not sure if BSNL plans to release this data scheme to these circles as well. The plan is not only beneficial to users who would like large amounts of mobile data but also other users as the plan extends numerous benefits as well. Users can make unlimited voice calls (to every mobile operator) for both Local and STD calls and also incur zero roaming charges. Plus, they are allowed unlimited Roaming calls along with 100 free SMSs per day

Other BSNL Plans:

The Monsoon Offer comes on the back of another one of BSNL’s latest limited period offer – “Eid Mubarak” plan. This plan was introduced on the eve of Eid and the product code is STV 786. This plan is valid only for a very limited amount of time – 12 days, starting 12th June and ends on 24th June. Users who select this plan will receive 2GB of 3G / 4G mobile data per day, unlimited voice calls to all telecom operators, no roaming charges and 100 free SMSs per day. The plan costs Rs. 756 is valid for a period of 150 days. Here again, the offer is available throughout the country except for the Mumbai and Delhi telecom circles.

BSNL also introduced another limited period offer themed on the FIFA World Cup and dubbed as “FIFA World Cup special data STV 149” that offers 4GB of data every day for a period of 28 days.