INDIA'S LARGEST TELECOM operator Reliance Jio Infocomm has launched the Jio Bharat V2 phone at ₹999, which the company claims is the lowest-priced internet-enabled phone. It can be bought with a monthly plan of ₹123 (apart from the ₹999 for the phone), where customers get unlimited voice calls and 14 GB data every month.
This comes after Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & MD of Reliance Industries, had launched the JioPhone with 4G-enabled features in July 2017. After disrupting the voice and data market in 2016, this was the next salvo from the petrochemicals-to-telecom conglomerate. At a price of just ₹1,500 (to be refunded over three years), the phone was eminently attractive as an inexpensive internet-enabled phone. That's not all, as the 2018 annual general meeting saw the JioPhone 2 being launched at ₹2,999. Ambani had also revealed the sales of 25 million JioPhone units by then.
Tarun Pathak, Research Director-Devices and Ecosystems at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, believes the strategy behind the launch of the JioPhone between 2017 and 2018, compared to what we see now is very different. "JioPhone was aimed at democratising internet usage and 4G adoption in India and it helped [the company] in gaining a foothold by selling more than 100 million units so far," he says. "The goal of Jio Bharat is to shift the 250 million-plus feature phone users, which still remains elusive to the internet economy, to a 4G device."
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