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Jio was soft launched on 27 December 2015 with a beta for partners and employees, [14] [15] and became publicly available on 5 September 2016. It is the largest mobile network operator in India and the third largest mobile network operator in the world with over 46.37 crore (463.78 million) subscribers. [16]
Over the past decade, the Indian cellular services market has seen rapid consolidation. The launch of Jio Platforms in 2016 changed the market dynamics substantially as the company offered free data and voice services during its first year of operations, prompting a fierce price war in the market. Jio managed to garner over 8 crore (80 million).
Jio soft-launched on 27 December 2015 with a beta for partners and employees [6] [7] [8] and became publicly available on 5 September 2016. It is the largest mobile network operator in India and the second largest mobile network operator in the world, with over 42.62 crore (426.2 million) subscribers.
The mobile subscriber base has grown from 5 million subscribers in 2001 to over 1,179.32 million subscribers as of July 2018. India primarily follows the GSM mobile system, in the 900 MHz band. Recent operators also operate in the 1800 MHz band. The dominant players are Vi, Airtel, Jio, and BSNL/MTNL.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) estimated that about 60% of Indian internet users viewed vernacular content and only about a quarter of internet users were over the age of 35 years in 2019. The WEF also estimated that 1.1 billion Indians would have access to the Internet by 2030, with 80% of the subscriber base primarily accessing the Internet ...
India Kenya (Airtel ... Jio Platforms: 4 ... This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured by number of subscribers. Rank ...
The 2016 launch of the LTE-only wireless carrier Jio spurred the growth of mobile broadband in India and was credited in turn for having bolstered the growth of streaming video in the country. While services of US origin such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix saw some growth in the Indian market, Hotstar remained the dominant streaming service. [7]
Indonesia has 254.792 million subscribers in total [51] (April 2018), or a 142% penetration rate [52] (January 2017). The regulatory authority for telecommunication in Indonesia is the Ministry of Communication and Informatics , having taking over the roles from the Badan Regulasi Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Indonesia Telecommunication Regulatory ...