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YouTube and WhatsApp inch closer to half a billion users in India

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Reliance’s Jio Platforms says it will roll out 5G in second half of 2021

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How Reliance Jio Platforms became India’s biggest telecom network

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Facebook's alliance with Jio will help it unlock India

The Drum 12 May 2020 11:30 PM As Facebook gears to connect the next billion people, they expect 70% to come from Asia and nearly 337m from India alone. Facebook’s recent $5.7 billion investment in Indian telecommunications behemoth Jio Platforms goes beyond the typical tech deal and will help the American social media titan finally unlock the world's biggest democracy.On the surface, it's an e-commerce deal that aims to deliver incremental benefits such as better choice, faster deliveries and lower prices to entice consumer

Facebook's $5.7bn bet on India's richest man Mukesh Ambani

BBC Technology 22 Apr 2020 03:02 AM Image copyright Getty Images Facebook has said it is investing $5.7bn (£4.6bn) in cut-price Indian mobile internet company Reliance Jio, which is owned by the country's richest person Mukesh Ambani.The deal makes the social network the largest minority shareholder in the telecoms unit of Reliance Industries, with a 9.99% stake.It gives Facebook a major foothold in India, where its WhatsApp chat service has 400m users and is about to launch a payments service."This investment underscores our com

Coronavirus: India replaces ringing tone with health info

BBC Technology 17 Mar 2020 01:23 PM By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News Image copyright Getty Images Several of India's mobile networks are playing a 30-second information alert about coronavirus before the start of every phone call.Jio, BSNL and Vodafone are among those to have adopted the move after a request from the government.The message, in English, begins with a person coughing and is heard instead of a ringing tone by the caller.However, several websites have published a way to silence it, after complaints it wa

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