number retention is a thing of the past now

friends last year i made a thread wherein jio stopped anyone from doing top recharges until and unless there is a valid plan. i said that they will apply this slowly circle by circle but many members criticized me and now it is valid all over the country. now jio does not give a f about number retention scheme. it is a scheme by dot/trai where in if a number is not used for incoming/outgoing calls/sms/internet/etc. service provider will deduct rs. 20 from top up balance after every 90 days. u can ask for official pdf from @guest_999 paji now what jio is doing from january of this year is that they are not following 90 days at all. they can deduct these charges after 30 days or 60 days or maybe after 90 days and once they deduct they wont stop to deduct every month until a recharge is done. also jio considers only outgoing calls/sms now not incoming which they should consider like earlier. @LIMBO can confirm that previously they used to even deduct once maybe in a year or two. but now they have become very aggressive. this might not be applicable in your circle as of now but very soon it will be. soon jio will give a user 30 days to recharge after a plan is over and then will directly stop that number. how soon? cant say.

- jio shops are telling everyone to get a cheap jiophone and insert sim in that, this way plans pertaining to jiophone will be applicable to the sim which are cheaper and on which jio is not this aggressive. any ideas about that? are these jiophones dual sim?
-since we all one have one or two jio numbers so which is the best way to keep them active economically? porting? if yes then port to which company and what plan? suppose my jio number is in my cousins name and he is out of country then how till porting be done?

@Rajkotian @Ash-D @Snapz @Watcher @DeciDeaim

ps- is there any keypad dual 4g phone using which the normal jio sim comes under the jiophone/jiophone prima category? the recharges for these are rs. 91 for 28 days and rs. 75 for 23 days. jio store is selling many phones but their idiot employees are not sure in which phone the normal sim will get converted to jiophone/jiophone prima. + @noobDealer