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All these operators have some sort of capping on no of minutes used and on no of unique numbers called. I don't think such capping is there on Jio. Even though it should suffice normal users, they should highlight them. Vodafone T&C: Customers using more than 1000 minutes (local +STD) in any period of consecutive 7 days, will be charged at 30p per minute for rest of 7 days period (eg if a customer consumes 1000 mins on 2nd day),he would be charged for rest of the five days). Customers using more than 250 minutes (local+STD) in a day will be charged at 30 p per minute (local +STD), after consumption of 300 minutes for the rest of the day till midnight 0.00 hrs. Customers calling more than 300 unique numbers in any period of seven consecutive days will be charged at 30p per minute (local+STD) after 300 unique numbers, for the rest of validity of recharge. Idea T&C: Customers using more than 250 outgoing minutes (local+STD as per Unlimited Pack benefits) in a day will be charged at 1p/sec (local +STD), after consumption of 250 minutes for the rest of the day till midnight 0.00 hrs. Customers using more than 1000 minutes (local +STD as per Unlimited Pack benefits) in any period of consecutive 7 days, will be charged at 1p/sec for rest of 7 days period (e.g. if a customer consumes 1000 mins on 2nd day , s/he would be charged for rest of the five days). Customers calling more than 100 unique numbers in any period of seven consecutive days will be charged at 1p/sec (local+STD) after 100 unique numbers, for the rest of validity of recharge.

People started using multiple SIMs in India mainly to take advantage of special offers of different operators. One of the reason that forced manufacturers to concentrate on dual SIM handsets. In most other countries, a person has a single SIM or at best two. Here many have 4 SIMs and carry two dual SIM phones. Now that most operators offer unlimited calls, this no longer seems necessary. The age of consolidation has also started. RCom and MTS are gone. Even BSNL CDMA is gone. Tata Docomo and Aircel are on the way out. Soon there will be only Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, BSNL and Jio. So people will be forced to reduce the number of SIMs they have and the ARPU would go up to around 200/mth. One more factor is Adhaar linking. Legally, a person can have a maximum of 9 connections in his name across all circles and across all operators, including both mobile and datacard connections, but this is not practically enforced as there is no common database. With adhaar linking, all connections would be linked to a particular adhaar and so it would be easy to find the number of connections in one adhaar.

The per day and per week, limitation is NOT in Airtel postpaid from the very beginning of Infinity plans, afaik. The prepaid limitation was also removed two to three weeks back as well. Now only limitation in Corp Infinity plans is 300 unique numbers (excluding CUG numbers) per week, if so then calls after 5000 minutes will be charged (not sure about what rates), to ensure non-commercial usage. Jio follows exactly the same to avoid commercial usage, but from Diwali onwards only (Jio store guys informed me), earlier it was totally FREE.