Reliance Jio offers free broadband, double data amid Covid-19 lockdown

Reliance Jio will offer basic JioFibre broadband service to new customers and doubled data limit for all its existing customers to support work from home in fight against coronavirus. The company announced the plans on Monday through its #CoronaHaaregaIndiaJeetega initiative.

Jio has also doubled data limits for top-up voucher and bundle-free calling minutes to non-Jio networks in these vouchers.

"To ensure that everyone stays connected while at home, Jio will provide Basic JioFiber broadband connectivity (10 Mbps), wherever it is geographically feasible, without any service charges, for this (coronavirus) period," Reliance Industries said in a statement. The company will also provide home