Reliance Jio made 83 million rural India 4G subscribers

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 06:11 PM

Reliance Jio made 83 million rural India 4G subscribers

New Delhi, April 3: Reliance Jio played a key role in increasing 4G penetration in India, helping the rural population get 83 million 4G subscriptions out of the total 238 million 4G subscribers by December 2017, a new report said on Tuesday.

According to the market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR), 35 percent of the 4G subscribers in India will use a 4G-enabled feature phone by 2020, taking the total 4G subscribers to 432 million.

One out of three 4G subscribers in the country is now from rural territory, the report added.

Jio also made the incumbents ramp up their technology as they invested more in 4G networks. Jio had 160 million subscribers at the end of December 2017 -- an increase of 122 percent.