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FWIW, this very same company that was planning to introduce Facebook's Free Basics as part of this very launch before the TRAI shot it down. The posted article
by devnonymous 10y ago
FWIW, this very same company that was planning to introduce Facebook's Free Basics as part of this very launch before the TRAI shot it down. The posted article links to the news report of that fiasco without making this fact clear.
So no, this isn't some sort of altruistic move by Reliance. They would've exploited the resulting situation if they had the freedom to do so with Free Basic (and if reports are correct -- they will be doing it anyways, by monitoring traffic on their Jio platform).
It is such an irony that Zuckerberg's ^mission^ of digitizing India by offering a trojan is being realized without Free Basics/internet.org by the very same company that they were planning to peddle it through.
EDIT: yes, I was mistaken, Free Basics was being peddled by Reliance Communications and this is Reliance Industries. Seems like the brothers either did bury the hatchet and decided on this as Plan B after free basics failed or Mukesh just disciplined Anil in the art of PR.
- gauravsc 10y agoI think that it was Reliance Communications (Mukesh's brothers company) and not Reliance Jio that facebook hd tied up to deliver free basics. It is not the same company.
- _RPM 10y agoHow full of shit is Zuckerberg do you think?
- avinashv 10y agoThere is no hatchet burying relevant to this: Mukesh and Anil's Reliances are separate. Reliance Communications direct competes with Reliance Jio.
- devnonymous 10y agoUh huh? Tell me more please because what I read here : http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/reliance-jio-launch-may-be-deferred-to-december/51522283 http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/reliance-ji... Reliance Jio has already inked a pact with Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications for airwaves sharing while the latter has acquired the Russsian telco Sistema that offers services under the MTS brand. The deal allowed Reliance Communications to get access to MTS spectrum in the 850 Mhz band that can be used to offer 4G services. Is complete falsehood! Sheesh, journalists huh? Here's another : http://telecomtalk.info/ril-infotel-and-rcom-to-tie-up-for-4g-wireless-broadband-services/81078/ http://telecomtalk.info/ril-infotel-and-rcom-to-tie-up-for-4... And some other things, which of course are unrelated and completely coincidental: http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/infrastructure/towers/anil-ambani-owned-rcom-may-walkout-of-tower-business-likely-to-sell-51-stake-in-reliance-infratel/47169813 http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/infrastruct... http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-04-23/news/31387124_1_telecom-towers-largest-tower-tower-arm http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-04-23/news...
- witty_username 10y agoCompetitors can still collaborate.
- devnonymous 10y agoTrue. Although collaboration while holding on to hatchets is a bit inconvenient. That's all I meant to imply.
- avinashv 10y agoYour snark is unnecessary. Had you Googled a bit more, you would have seen that they also share towers with Airtel, among others. Airtel is also a retail telecom competitor.