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Reliance Jio's new big idea: 4G smartphones at Rs 3000 to migrate 2G users

It wants to push the pedal on more than doubling its monthly acquisition of 2G customers from competing telecom companies.

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Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
Global and domestic mobile device manufacturers are in discussions with Reliance Jio to offer 4G smartphones in substantial volumes at a price pegged at Rs 2,000-3,000.

According to people close to the matter, Jio is looking at a ‘big bang’ migration of 2G consumers to 4G. It wants to push the pedal on more than doubling its monthly acquisition of 2G customers from competing telecom companies and the obstacle is that good quality, 4G smartphones are priced over Rs 5,000 — a stumbling block in the way of 2G consumers migrating to 4G.  

Jio has been adding about 6-9 million new