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Just days ahead of the much-awaited cricket-series Tata IPL 2025 in India, streaming giant JioHotstar has offered subscriptions plans for consumers to manage their cricket watching sessions online this season. JioHotstar has announced that cricket fans can buy a subscription plan of $3.4 or above to gain access to live streaming of all IPL matches. It also allows subscribers with an existing plan in that bracket to buy an add-on pack worth $1.1 to get access to the streaming of the matches starting March 22. The offers are for existing and potential Jio SIM card holders.
JioHotstar Unveils Subscription Plans for IPL 2025
Just two days ahead of the much-awaited cricket-series IPL 2025 in India, streaming giant JioHotstar offers subscriptions plans for consumers to enjoy the cricket matches this season. The service provider Jio also announced offers for its existing consumers to avail the live streaming of one of the biggest sports events in the country.
JioHotstar Subscriptions Plan Options to Watch IPL 2025
Get a JioHotstar plan for $3.4 or more: If existing consumers recharge their Jio SIM cards with $3.4 (or above) plan after March 17 and before March 31, they can avail the offer to watch all IPL matches for the season for the next 90 days.
Buy a $1.1 add-on pack: Existing customers with a plan above $3.4, who recharged right before March 17, need to pay an additional $1.1 to watch the cricket matches this IPL season.
Buy new connection with $3.4 or above plan: New subscribers can simply buy a new Jio SIM card and get a subscription plan for $3.4 (or above).
Watch IPL 2025 for free: Customers with a Jio SIM card can recharge their connections with plans worth $3.4 or above after March 17 to avail the free service. Existing subscribers of JioHotstar can also avail free streaming of the matches as per their plans.
With the new offer, consumers get access to live cricket matches starting from the first match of IPL 2025 on March 22, up to the finale which is set to take place on May 25, 2025. The offer also provides a free 50-day trial of JioAirFiber which includes access to more than 800 TV Channels, 11 OTT apps and unlimited WiFi internet connection.
JioHotstar
JioStar, the joint venture betweem Reliance India’s Jio and Disney Hotstar, announced the launch of JioHotstar in mid-February. The announcement came months after the merger of Walt Disney and Reliance Industries.
JioHotstar combines content from Jio Cinema and Disney+ Hotstar, to offer one of the biggest libraries of live entertainment and sports in India. At the launch, the platform allowed subscribers to continue their JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar plans.
The platform offered films, originals, international premieres and anime across ten languages apart from TV programs in those languages. JioHotstar also offers content from Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery HBO, Paramount and NBCUniversal Peacock.
For a long time, JioCinema was the go-to platform for several flagship sports events and JioHotstar promised to provide the same experience for viewers when it was announced earlier this year. An earlier announcement claimed to offer access to all live sports events with each and every subscription plan. At the time of publishing this article, the description page on JioHotstar subscriptions mentioned “All of our plans give you access to all content on our platform (including) unlimited live sports” The disclaimer mentions cricket in the live sports category.
IPL 2025
The new season of Tata Indian Premiere League 2025 will open on Saturday, March 22 with a match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Eden Gardens in the Indian city of Kolkata. Regular matches will be held among the ten participating teams till the finale which is scheduled to be held on May 25 at the famous Eden Gardens Stadium.
IPL On TV: All the IPL matches will be live streamed across Star Sports Network TV channels in India. Most of the streaming will offer Hindi and English commentary. Tamil fans can enjoy Tamil commentary on Star Sports 1 Tamil while Star Sports 1 Telugu will offer Telugu commentary for the matches. Star Sports 1 Kannada will also have Kannada commentary for the matches.
IPL viewership On Jio
Jio has had a brilliant record of viewership with the popular T20 format of cricket. JioCinema which streamed the complete season of Tata IPL 2024 recorded a whopping 26 billion views on the platform, a 53% increase since the 2023 IPL was streamed on Jio.
Viewers in the USA can watch all the IPL 2025 matches with a subscription to FuboTV or WillowTV. Cricket fans in the UK and Ireland can watch it on Sky Sports TV.
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