Reliance Jio just teased that they will be launching a tie-up with Hotstar to give the customers a complimentary Hotstar Disney+ subscription. The tie-up is in response to Airtel offering a complimentary subscription of Hotstar Disney+ on their Rs. 401 prepaid recharge package. The company teased about the tie-up on its website with a poster that has coming soon written on it. This won't be the first time Reliance is offering a complimentary Hotstar premium subscription to its customers. A similar service was launched by Reliance Jio before where customers used to get Hotstar premium through the JioTv app.
The complimentary subscription of Hotstar premium will be worth 399 and will give access to all the Disney movies and shows on the app along with all the other tv shows like Westworld. We still don't know when the offer will go live but it is going to come very soon. Reliance Jio has the biggest customer base in India right now and this tie-up with Hotstar is great news for the customers.
Bharti Airtel is also offering complimentary subscriptions of streaming services on their prepaid packages. Depending on the package customers can get a free subscription of zee5 and of Hotstar premium. It seems that offering complimentary streaming services subscriptions is the way forward for telecom companies. It helps both the customers and streaming services. Earlier Airtel used to offer free amazon prime subscription worth Rs. 129 with their recharge packages.
Reliance Jio also offers its own JioTv app and Jio Cinema app along with Jio Saavn which is going to get a makeover. Airtel too offers Airtel Xstream streaming service to its customers and Wynk music app. We still don't know the package price of the Jio recharge but it will be close to the price of Rs. 400.