Yes, you heard it right, you’ve seen it right, you’ve read it right. iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c is available for free from Rcom or Reliance communication starting from today, 1st of November, the official launch day of both the phones in India. Now, You might me thinking ‘yeah right, what’s the catch here?’. Well the catch is, the phone is ‘subsidized’, it will be tied to a two year/24 months contract with a monthly bill/payment of 2,500 Rupees or 2,800 Rupees depending on which phone you choose. 2,500 Rupees for iPhone 5c and 2,800 Rupees for iPhone 5s, 16GB each. Which includes free ‘unlimited’ voice calls, 3G data, SMS, now obviously all of this ‘unlimited’ stuff comes under ‘FUP’ especially 3G data. So ultimately you’ll get the phone for free, you just have to pay the monthly bills as per your contract.
If you want to buy the 32GB version or 64GB version(iPhone 5s only) then you’ll have to pay 10,000 Rupees in advance for 32GB version and 18,000 Rupees for 64GB version. If you are thinking ‘Ha, I will just buy the iPhone 5s, throw the Reilance sim away and unlock it through dark ways’ then forget it, because your credit card will be tied to the contract. So, even if you don’t want to pay the bills, don’t worry the company will be more than happy to take it of your credit card. Oh and by the way only ICICI, HDFC, Standard Chartered, CitiBank, credit cards are eligible for this offer. You can also buy the phones off contract if you want by paying the full retail price upfront starting from 41,900 Rupees for 16GB iPhone 5c and 53,500 Rupees for 16GB iPhone 5s.