Reliance Industries could probably team up with Aakash tablet maker, Datawind to bring a 4G tablet. Not just a 4G tablet but possibly the cheapest tablet by a big brand available commercially.
The ambitious target of both Reliance and Datawind is to sell a
TD-LTE device at half the price of the tablets currently available. Both
the companies seems to be in agreement with a price tag of Rs. 5000.
There is a popular Reliance 3G Tab,
which is made by a different Reliance, the Reliance of Anil Ambani. The
4G tablet will be from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance. In fact, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries is the only company to have a pan India TD-LTE license.
Reliance is planning to start its 4G operations in 2012 and it will
not be launching its services without appropriate partnerships. The
current crop of devices are not ready for Indian consumption because of
their expensive nature. Reliance is not known for selling expensive
stuff. From that perspective, the Datawind deal makes all the more
sense.
If Reliance offers its 4G tablet at the price promised, India could
leapfrog all the consumer devices ever produced to access the Internet
and land straight up on tablets.
TD-LTE will offer better speeds and a cheap Reliance 4G
Tablet probably leapfrog India’s connectivity option in a way Broadband,
Mobile and 3G together could never achieve.
PS : This is a speculation. And we comment on market speculations. That’s what we do. Along with other things of course.
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