Last week, Reliance announced their new android base smart phone in collaboration with google. Priced at rupe six, four, nine, nine, reliance is attempting to put a smart phone in the hands of every indian. In 20 17, there were about 500 million feature phone users in the country. By 20 21, go got around hundred and ten million of these users to sign up to its forgy networkb Cheap tariffs with a cheap phone, and you can get a bit of magic. But geo wants more. It wants everyone to switch,. Hence it's slogan for a toji mut bart, or a toji free India.
Reliance Industries’ smartphone experiment, JioPhone Next, is finally here after a hiccup or two. But can it help Reliance Jio fulfil its ambitions of a “2G-Mukt Bharat” (2G-free India)?
In today’s episode for 8th November 2011, we explore this and more.