JioBusiness: A Deal and a Half for MSMEs Across the Country

Reliance just announced its enterprise digital solutions venture called JioBusiness. The largest telco in India aims to revolutionize the MSME sector of the country, where over 50 million enterprises operate. These enterprises form the bedrock of India's economy and are the core of the entrepreneurial spirit of the people. What's more, the plans start at as cheap as Rs. 901 per month and go up to Rs. 10,001 per month, with a variety of added on benefits. These benefits are across three core verticals: Connectivity, Digital Solutions and Device Offers.

JioBusiness Rs. 901/Month Tariff Plan

The most basic of the plans, it offers only the first of the verticals, that is, connectivity. The core features are:

• Unlimited Fiber Broadband: up to 100 Mbps of high-speed broadband over Reliance GigaFiber.
• Unlimited Voice: 1 line of Enterprise-Grade IP Centrex.

JioBusiness Rs. 1,201/Month Tariff Plan

This plan brings the basics of the Digital Solutions offered by the new Reliance Jio venture, while improving the deliverables in Connectivity. The complete features are:

1. Connectivity
   1. Unlimited Fiber Broadband: up to 150 Mbps of GigaFiber broadband.
   2. Unlimited Voice: 2 lines of IP Centrex
   3. Fixed Mobile Convergence: Available only in the first 3 months as an introductory offer. This feature is used to receive calls from within the network on devices outside of the network as well.
2. Digital Solutions
   1. Microsoft 365: Two Licenses available with the Office Apps Suite.
   2. Jio Attendance: An employee management system. 10 Licenses available in the plan.
   3. JioOnline: Reliance's Digital Marketing venture - Basic Plan Included

JioBusiness Rs. 2,001/Month Tariff Plan

The deliverables in this plan extend to Device Offers as well for the first time. All the features:

1. Connectivity
   1. Unlimited Fiber Broadband: up to 300 Mbps of GigaFiber broadband.
   2. Unlimited Voice: 4 lines of IP Centrex
   3. Fixed Mobile Convergence: Available only in the first 3 months as an introductory offer.
2. Digital Solutions
   1. Microsoft 365: Four Licenses.
   2. Jio Attendance: 10 Licenses.
   3. JioOnline: Basic Plan
3. Devices Offers
   1. Device as a Service: This will enable an enterprise to avail offers with Reliance Digital to acquire a device as a service. For example, Reliance's JioPhone offering is a DaaS.
   2. Special Devices Offers: These device offers might include special bulk discounts, or normal discounts on single purchases. Furthermore, this can also include EMI options for small businesses.

JioBusiness Rs. 3,001/Month Tariff Plan

From this point on, the tariff of the plans increases by a quantum of Rs. 2,000 from plan to plan. Interestingly, this is middle point for all the JioBusiness plans. Before this, the plans are focused on small businesses. However, as it progresses, the plans look more fine-tuned for a medium sized enterprise. Although, in terms of value for money and the progression of deliverables, this plan is probably the weakest. Nevertheless, the plan's deliverables are as follows:

1. Connectivity
   1. Unlimited Fiber Broadband: up to 500 Mbps of GigaFiber broadband.
   2. Unlimited Voice: 4 lines of IP Centrex
   3. Fixed Mobile Convergence: Available only in the first 3 months as an introductory offer.
2. Digital Solutions
   1. Microsoft 365: Six Licenses.
   2. Jio Attendance: 10 Licenses.
   3. JioOnline: Basic Plan
3. Device Offers
   1. Device as a Service
   2. Special Device Offer

JioBusiness Rs. 5,001/Month Tariff Plan

This plan is the first plan with all of the deliverables that JioBusiness can offer. Up until now, there were at least one deliverable missing in both Connectivity and Digital Solutions. Also, this plan is the first to offer Gbps-level speeds in the GigaFiber Broadband. Here are the total features of this plan:

1. Connectivity
   1. Unlimited Fiber Broadband: up to 1 Gbps of GigaFiber broadband.
   2. Unlimited Voice: 4 lines of IP Centrex
   3. Fixed Mobile Convergence: this is the first plan in which FMC is available for the entirety of the duration of the plan.
   4. Static IP: again, the first plan with this feature.
2. Digital Solutions
   1. Microsoft 365: Ten Licenses.
   2. Jio Attendance: 20 Licenses.
   3. JioOnline: this is also the first time JioOnline is available in the Pro Plan.
   4. Conferencing
      1. JioMeet: this is a conferencing service from Reliance Jio. Incidentally, it can provide up to 24 hours of continuous video conferencing. In this plan, 2 Licenses are available for use in this plan.
      2. Microsoft Teams: 10 Licenses are available for use in this plan.
3. Device Offers
   1. Device as a Service
   2. Special Device Offer

JioBusiness Rs. 7,001/Month Tariff Plan

This is the penultimate plan in the complete portfolio of the service. And the deliverables are as follows:

1. Connectivity
   1. Unlimited Fiber Broadband: up to 1 Gbps of GigaFiber broadband.
   2. Unlimited Voice: 8 lines of IP Centrex
   3. Fixed Mobile Convergence
   4. Static IP
2. Digital Solutions
   1. Microsoft 365: 15 Licenses.
   2. Jio Attendance: 30 Licenses.
   3. JioOnline: Pro Plan.
   4. Conferencing
      1. JioMeet: 3 Licenses
      2. Microsoft Teams: 15 Licenses
3. Device Offers
   1. Device as a Service
   2. Special Device Offer

JioBusiness Rs. 10,001/Month Tariff Plan

This plan is the largest and most expensive of plans. First, the plan has the largest number of licenses across all the services which require a license. Second, the plan is diverse enough to support a group of 50 employees. The entire list of features are as follows:

• Connectivity
  1. Unlimited Fiber Broadband: up to 1 Gbps of GigaFiber broadband.
  2. Unlimited Voice: 8 lines of IP Centrex
  3. Fixed Mobile Convergence
  4. Static IP
• Digital Solutions
  1. Microsoft 365: 25 Licenses.
  2. Jio Attendance: 50 Licenses.
  3. JioOnline: Pro Plan.
  4. Conferencing
     1. JioMeet: 4 Licenses
     2. Microsoft Teams: 25 Licenses
• Device Offers
  1. Device as a Service
  2. Special Device Offer

Conclusion

Reliance Jio has seemingly a plan laid out to make use of their telecom infrastructure and standing as much as possible. With JioPhones already a roaring success and JioBook on the way, JioBusiness is definitely in the larger plan to expand into consumer electronics and services from Reliance. That is important because the latter is far more lucrative and has much stable cash flows than telecom business.