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India’s Reliance targets 2G users with $13 4G phones offering streaming, payments
Reliance's digital arm, Jio Platforms, has launched two new 4G-enabled handsets that offer access to live TV, music and video streaming as well as host Reliance's 4G-enabled JioBharat v3 and v4 cost $13 apiece and support live TV, streaming and digital payments.
Instead, these phones represent Jio Platform’s strategic push to capture the next 100 million users in India – those for whom even a $50 smartphone remains out of reach. Jio Platforms, backed by tech giants Google and Meta, already dominates as India’s largest telecom network with about 490 million paying subscribers. The handsets — available to purchase from physical retail stores, JioMart and Amazon — feature access to JioTV, JioCinema and JioSavvn.
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