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We probably should analyse the way it's done in India: ultra-cheap mobile Internet (how do they manage to both provide the coverage and sustain such low prices?
by qwerty456127 7y ago
We probably should analyse the way it's done in India: ultra-cheap mobile Internet (how do they manage to both provide the coverage and sustain such low prices?) and budget-class devices. There has even been a post about the new class of cheap phones which are more like those of the pre-iPhone era. I believe giving everybody access to YouTube, Reddit and Wikipedia is important.
- tguvot 7y agoI guess when you talk about India you mainly talk about Jio. They are founded by Reliance Industries which is largest publicly traded company there. Most of the network rollout and phone prices (nobody knows real BOM for their phones) are subsidized and the general business plan seems to be to make money from value added services that can be obtained from Jio in the future. Also to make rollout cheaper they negotiated some exclusive deals with Samsung; wrote their own operational support systems instead of buying off the shelf ( very expensive for deployment and integration) and probably did a whole bunch of other stuff. It's not something that can be repeated without having large sums of money to support it
- sumedh 7y ago> how do they manage to both provide the coverage and sustain such low prices? Have another business segment which makes lot of money and also use lot of debt. Reliance Jio's parent company Reliance is a big player in oil refining.
- russdpale 7y agoWikipedia ok, but Youtube and Reddit? Are you kidding? Thought you were going to say something useful like wolfram alpha. Youtube is full of conspiracy theories and reddit seems to be catering itself to white supremacy. Definitely not paragons of good or ethical internet companies.