Jump to content
society

India's richest man offering free 4G to ~1 billion people


Morphine Prince

Featured Posts

Morphine Prince

India's richest man is rolling out a $20 billion mobile network that could bring lightning-fast Internet to hundreds of millions of people.

Indian consumers are already celebrating the arrival of Mukesh Ambani's new Reliance Jio service, seizing on the billionaire's promise to deliver rock bottom prices and download speeds that will enable streaming video.

The 4G network, which reaches more than 80% of the country, officially went live Monday with a set of generous introductory offers. Indians will be able to use Jio for free until the end of 2016, and pay as little as 149 rupees ($2.25) a month for data after that.

"Anything and everything that can go digital is going digital -- at an exponential rate," Ambani told investors last week at his company's annual general meeting. "Life is going digital."

Only one fifth of adults in India have access to the Internet. Few public Wi-Fi spots exist, and fast broadband connections require infrastructure that is rarely found in poorer urban areas, much less rural ones.

But that is changing fast. If the Jio network succeeds, Ambani will be able to capitalize on a seismic shift that could see hundreds of millions of Indians come online in the coming years -- in most cases via a smartphone.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/india-reliance-jio-4g-internet/index.html?sr=fbCNN090616/india-reliance-jio-4g-internet1230PMStoryLink&linkId=28427585

 

Link to post
Share on other sites

not me thinking it was a man offering gaga big money to buy LG5 like that crazy guy who wanted to buy the kanye west's last album :excuseu::laughga:

Link to post
Share on other sites

TerrenceV2

Amazing, we could only wish for something like that here in America where the greedy corporations only care about rising prices more and more. Sad world.

playground love - josef salvat
Link to post
Share on other sites

Xoxo Adriana

If it isn't a free phone with it they can keep it :reductive:

Link to post
Share on other sites

President Trump

OMG I BET THE FREQUENCY OF THE 4G ONCE IT COVERS THE WHOLE COUNTRY WILL GO ROGUE AND TURN ALL OF THE INHABITANTS INTO MINDLESS MURDEROUS DRONES!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

LG5 SAVE US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fridance-8-012.gif

 

Ma ma pa pa pa
Link to post
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...