In a bid to take on Jio and Airtel's run in the Indian telecom market, state-owned operator BSNL has reportedly released a new prepaid pack that is available only in the Andhra Pradesh & Telangana circle. Priced at Rs. 171, the BSNL recharge is said to offer 2GB of 2G/ 3G data per day, unlimited voice calls, and 100 SMS messages per day with a validity of 30 days. This takes the reported total data benefits to 60GB and gives the pack a per GB cost of just about Rs. 2.85. The new Rs. 171 BSNL recharge takes on the popular Rs. 198 Jio recharge that has the same daily data allocation but lower validity, meaning lesser total bundled data.As mentioned earlier, Reliance Jio has its Rs. 198 prepaid pack that comes with similar benefits - 2GB of 4G data per day, unlimited voice calls, and 100 SMS messages per day - but has a slightly lesser validity of 28 days compared to 30 days with the BSNL offering. Airtel also has a similarly priced pack that offers 1.4GB 3G/ 4G data per day, unlimited voice calling, and 100 SMS messages per day for 28 days at Rs. 199. BSNL manages to beat both of these packs in terms of value for money. However, a recent development suggested that Vodafone's Rs. 199 prepaid pack has been revised for select users to provide up to 2.8GB of 3G/ 4G data per day, for 28 days, with similar calling benefits and no free SMS messages.



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