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| Reliance cooperation with Google threatens Chinese companies |
Google and Reliance Industries in India have teamed up to develop new $ 4.5 billion smartphones that could disrupt the mobile phone market, which ranks second in number of users worldwide.
Mukesh Ambani (Mukesh Ambani) announced the partnership at the company's annual meeting last week, saying: Google will create an Android operating system to operate low 4G networks and even 5G networks from Reliance. The cost of a smartphone.
This new phone will pose a major challenge to Chinese sellers such as Realme, BBK, Oppo and Vivo owners, as the latter currently earns $ 2 billion in the Indian smartphone market at a high price. Less than 100 dollars. Dollar market.
For its part, Rushabh Doshi of Canalys, a market research company, said: “In India, approximately 8 out of 10 smartphones sold by Chinese companies are sold in India. Addiction will disrupt other brands and pose a real threat to the smart phone market. low cost.
Reliance implemented a similar plan in 2017 and launched (JioPhone), which allows users to access the Internet for $ 20. (JioPhone) now has over 100 million users, many of whom use the Internet for the first time.
Chinese telecom operators can reduce their competitiveness and lower their profit margins. Participants in telecom competitors Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel can make Reliance efforts to make smartphones available to all Indians.
As part of the alliance, Google has invested $ 4.5 billion in Jio Platforms, the Reliance Digital division, which includes telecom and fiber companies, as well as music and movie applications.
Since April, Jio platforms have also been supported by global finance and technology investors such as Intel and Qualcomm.
Although Reliance did not provide detailed information about the specifications or price of the new smartphone, the geographical network of 387 million users and the Google brand indicate this phone at launch or who can manufacture it, which is a great advantage.
The Google Android team wants to make sure that smartphone users can access health, communication, functionality and ease-of-use applications for the first time.
This type of access can help attract nearly 350 million Indians using non-touch smartphones.
Collaboration with Google could pave the way for more partnerships between smartphone manufacturers and Reliance to build GEO network devices.