JioPhone Might Retail at a Lesser Price as Reliance Jio Plans to Achieve 500 Million Subscriber Base

Reliance Jio, in its Annual General Meeting of this year, has made clear that it is adamant on its plans and priority to add 500 million subscribers. To do that, a big helping hand has been the sales of Reliance Jio’s feature phone, the JioPhone. Now, to once again revive the sale of the JioPhone, Reliance Jio might be planning to add more content offerings, lower prices or ship more applications to lure more buyers towards the JioPhone. A new ET Telecom report highlights that Reliance Jio might be looking forward to rekindling the JioPhone sales.

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Reliance Jio to Also Make New Apps for the JioPhone

It is also worth noting that the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator has already stopped pushing for the sale of JioPhone 2, which is the successor of the first-generation feature phone from Reliance Jio. The second-gen phone from Jio could not see as much response as the first-generation phone. Owing to this lukewarm response from the potential buyers of the JioPhone 2, the sources have said that Reliance Jio has abandoned the plans for introducing the third generation of JioPhones, or at least that seems to be the case for now.

Tarun Pathak, research director at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, has said about this situation, “JioPhone 1 has got some good updates over the years. Jio can now start marketing the JioPhone from the apps perspective – for instance, apps related to agriculture, learning basic English, entertainment, which should serve as a clear differentiator to the 2G feature phone.”