Reliance Jio to Sell 5G Phones Starting at Just Rs.2,500: Report
Oct. 19, 2020At its annual general meeting in July, Reliance announcedJio 5G. While the telecom giant had already revealed its plans tocollaborate with Googlefor making affordable 5G smartphones, a new PTI report reveals that the estimated cost would be a lot lesser than you would expect.
According to the report citing a Jio official,Reliance Jio will sell5Gphones for less than Rs 5,000. In addition, the company isplanning to price the 5G phones around Rs.2,500 to Rs.3,000 once it manages to scale up production and sales.“Jio wants to bring the device for less than Rs 5,000. When we scale up the sales, it can be priced in the range of Rs 2,500-3,000,”a Reliance Jio official toldPTI.
These 5G phones are apparently targeted at 2G users, whose userbase is approximately 30 crore at the moment. This is in line with what Reliance Jio Chairman Mukesh Ambani said at the company’s 43rd AGM.“As India is standing at the doorsteps of the 5G era, we should accelerate the migration of 350 million Indians, who currently use a 2G feature phone, to an affordable smartphone,”he said.
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