Today, on the last day of the year 2020, the telecom giant Reliance Jio announced that it will once again provide free domestic voice calling on all the networks from January 1, 2021. This decision came as a result of the ‘Bill and Keep' regime that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is implementing in the country from January 1 that will end interconnect usage charges (IUC) for all domestic voice calls.

Following this update, the users of Reliance Jio will be able to make free voice calls to any mobile network in India. Reliance Jio made this decision to make the competition tougher for other telecom's including Airtel and Vi. Other operators will also no longer get any charges from Jio for terminating voice calls from its network.

Earlier Jio claimed that due to bearing IUC, the operators need to pay for enabling off-net voice calls on their networks, it had paid nearly Rs. 13,500 crores to other operators in the last three years. When Jio started charging customers for making voice calls to other networks, it continued to offer free Jio-to-Jio voice calls. On the other hand, other operators favoured IUC as it emerged as one of the main sources of their income. A large number of Jio users also criticised the telecom's move to start charging for voice calls. 

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