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When Jio was launched in 2016, Mukesh Ambani (Managing Director of Reliance Industries, parent company of Jio) quoted saying “Data is the new oil and we don’t n
by praveenweb 8y ago
When Jio was launched in 2016, Mukesh Ambani (Managing Director of Reliance Industries, parent company of Jio) quoted saying “Data is the new oil and we don’t need to import it”
Jio comes bundled with value added free services like JioTV, JioCinema, JioMagazine, JioMusic(JioSaavn now) and bunch of other apps.
India is a price sensitive market and hence Jio would keep prices lower for as long as possible to keep other players out. Jio is already posting profits.
They are in it for the long game. The bottomline is that prices may not go up anytime soon.
- dugluak 8y agoall of that sounds so scary. One corporation controlling what you watch, read and listen.
- inapis 8y agoThey’ve already shown troubling signs. When Jio was launched, senior executives, when asked about how they’ll increase revenues, said, “There’s something called as Deep Packet Inspection and the potential is enormous”[1] Second, Jio frequently blocks VPN connections. Proactively and sometimes without reason even if there’s no government order. Sometimes, I’ve had to use techniques from blog posts about bypassing the great firewall of China to be able to connect to VPN services. Its not as ridiculous as the actual GFW but the signs are there. Reliance is also engaged in a plethora of businesses, especially consumer facing ones and have shown increased desire to link it all together. [1] https://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio/from-big-oil-to-big-data-inside-mukesh-ambanis-20-billion-start-up-idINKCN11611V https://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio/from-bi...
- manojlds 8y agoReddit has been banned on and off in Jio and Jio owned Hathway.