JioFi hotspot dongle on sale at big discount as price slashed by over 50 per cent

The season of discount has begun and Reliance Jio doesn't want to miss on it. The company has announced a new offer for the JioFi buyers. It  has reduced the price of its JioFi device from Rs 1999 to Rs 999, a price cut of Rs 1000 under the offer. Also, the offer is valid only on JioFi M2S model and this offer cannot be merged with any other offer.

The JioFi device was launched in September 2016. The device claims to offer speed of up to 150Mbps and upload speed of 50Mbps. The JioFi device can connect up to 32 devices. The 2300mAh battery claims to offer 5 to 6 hours of usage time. User can also install Jio4GVoice App on the 2G/3G smartphone to make Video & HD Voice Calls using JioFi.

Jio's portable WiFi hotspot was launched at Rs 2,899. The device later received a price cut lowering the price to Rs 1999. The device comes with a Jio SIM and supports LTE  bands 2300/1800/850MHz and IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2.4G for WLAN.

The JioFi device comes at Rs 1999 in other days. At Rs 1999, the 

device comes bundled with free data and voice calls for 12 months, thus making the price of the device effectively zero. With JioFi selling at Rs 999 till September 30, users will get unlimited calls, 1GB or 2GB 4G data per day, 100 SMS for 28 days.

JioPhone delivery delayed till October 1

JioPhone which was supposed to be shipping from September 21 will now be delivered staring October 1. " We got a message from the company (Jio) that the delivery has been postponed to October. The JioPhone delivery will start from October 1," said a retailer to India Today Tech.

Jio has said that the second round of pre-orders for the JioPhone could begin soon . However, the retailers contacted by India Today Tech say that the pre-orders would most probably only start after the delivery of the JioPhone.