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This is the same company that Facebook was going to use with Internet.org. It looks like after Facebook's attempt was blocked, he realized he didn't have to be
by bbctol 10y ago
This is the same company that Facebook was going to use with Internet.org. It looks like after Facebook's attempt was blocked, he realized he didn't have to be a middleman, and could just offer cheap service on his infrastructure anyway. Still, this comes across as even more damage to Facebook's attempt to be seen as altruistic, even if I expect the profit-seeking is just slightly less obvious in this case.
EDIT: Oh no, the plot thickens! Facebook was working through Reliance Communications, a subsidiary of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Reliance Jio is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited. These are two halves of a split business empire; Mukesh Ambani didn't take Facebook's idea, he took the idea Facebook had for his brother!
- jitix 10y agoMukesh Ambani had been planning this for a long time now. They got the license couple of years back and then started building out the infrastructure. However Facebook's freebasics and the failed venture with his brother's company might have had some effect on the pricing that Jio is offering now.