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What Makes Jio Different?
- ETHisso2017 6y agoWhat makes them different? regulatory arbitrage
- fatbird 6y agoThe better question is who keeps planting all these Jio marketing puff pieces?
- ETHisso2017 6y agopeople from /r/indiaspeaks who think Jio's regulatory capture is the same thing as innovation
- peteretep 6y agoJesus this is long. tldr for part one is: Jio is 4G only and that means all calls are VOIP(ish), and you only have to maintain the data network. This allows them to offer much cheaper data to their subscribers, and hence a bunch of new Indians are coming online. tldr for part two is: the parent company is a retail giant and there’s a hope that they’ll be able to leverage the network to sell physical products to the new Cyber Indians.
- ETHisso2017 6y agoand what's missing in both parts is that Jio abused peering regulations in India to get away with not having to compensate other Indian ISPs for huge chunks of their data backhaul, helped domestic political parties in India for enhanced regulatory control, and then manipulated China-US tensions to erase its $33B external debt