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- They've crippled the indian telecom industry by driving out many competitors through their anti-competitive behaviour of offering FREE services for nearly a y
by webmobdev 6y ago
- They've crippled the indian telecom industry by driving out many competitors through their anti-competitive behaviour of offering FREE services for nearly a year under the guise of "testing" their network. They were aided in this by the government who ignored the protests from the other players.
- Then they offered services for very LOW prices.
- Once the competitors were driven out, they've RAISED prices. And are now lobbying with the government to reduce inter-connection charges and to stop "Free" calls which their remaining competitors are still offering.
- They are also extremely INVASIVE in collecting data on you through their services, apps, and even deep packet inspection of your secure connections. They are also suspected of creating shadow profiles and trying to link it to real profiles by data from their other businesses (e.g. Reliance Retail stores) and also through data they purchase from data brokers.
- They lobbied AGAINST NET-NEUTRALITY and tried to offer Facebook services for free, but luckily for us failed.
- I can bet that Facebook and Jio will now SHARE DATA and use each others service more. Goodbye privacy. For ever.
- missedthecue 6y agoThis sounds like something Vodafone would write up. Jio prices now are lower than all their competitors prices were 5 years ago. Even if Jio raised prices a little higher than they ever were, it doesn't therefore follow that the indian consumer is worse off for having the new player. And vodafone and others didn't leave the indian market. Jio isn't the only player in India. They'll always have competition that keeps them from raising prices to confiscatory rates.
- rgrs 6y agoSource please? Are these your opinions or do you have articles (not blogs or tweets) to support your claims?
- webmobdev 6y agoSorry, can't help you with your scrubbing. You can Google for it.
- sbmthakur 6y agoLow prices enabled millions of Indians to get connected to the Internet. Interest of millions of Indians will be always given precedence over interests of a bunch of companies that want to keep data prices high to ensure their profits. Please share citations for your other accusations.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoIndia went from charging some of the costliest data plans in the world to some of the cheapest, thanks to Jio. What exactly was holding back the hands of the entrenched players when they charged INR 10 per MB of data?
- intended 6y agoHow? India had some of the cheapest plans in the world, and the indian telecom market is famous for having the lowest if not among the lowest ARPU rates in the world. Do you have a source or reference point for this?
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agohttps://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast-cheap-internetone-billionaire-changed-all-that-1536159916 https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast...
- intended 6y agoI checked that, and the difference was that we went from among the cheapest internet costs in 2017, to even lower. 2017 figures and 2019 figures are significantly different if you are poor, however that doesn't mean that prices were high. And there isn't anything like a free lunch - Reliance has achieved these costs through a variety of means, both legal and supra legal. Their "creative" ways to abuse the network testing period for example (and the non response from the regulator), their use and harvesting of private data to inform other parts of their empire and their efforts to take over the market bode ill for India. Remember that Net neutrality was won because we got lucky and there was enough political capital for people like Nilekani to also advocate for it through the government machinery. However when NN 3.0 happens, Reliance will not let it pass. With a market without competition, they will succeed - since they have to spend less effort competing and can afford their lobbying.