ASSURED Indian Innovation, A Mobile Revolution
1995 to 2014, about 910 million mobile phone subscribers
18 times the number of landline connections in 2006 when landline subscriptions peaked at 50 million
The era of 'trunk calls' and ISD and STD booths had come to a definitive end.
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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
Free voice calling and extremely affordable (10 cents per GB!) high-speed 4G internet using their Jio connections
Jio's greenfield LTE network is the first countrywide deployment of VoLTE or voice over LTE in India
did away with national 'roaming charges',
Speech and hearing impaired people using video calls to communicate with each other in sign language.
Jio fast-tracked Aadhaar-based eKYC
SIM activation in under 5 minutes!
100,000 telecom towers erected was pre-fabricated and consumes 3 times less power than conventional towers.
250,000 route kilometres of fibre optic cables laid, done using high-tech machines that laid the fibre deep underground with minimal surface disturbance just by drilling two holes.
Feature phone that again fulfils all the elements of ASSURED innovation and allows users to benefit from access to the internet.
#1
All these efforts have risen India's rank from #155 just one year ago to #1 today in global mobile internet usage