After Reliance Industries acquired Infotel Broadband it was a foregone conclusion that the group would make a big move into the telecom sector.
Now, according to an Economic Times report, Reliance Industries in keen to provide low-cost tablets powered by high-speed data services by the end of next year.
The petroleum-to-retail giant is planning to launch tablets at as low a price as Rs 3,500 bundled with a high-speed data offering of 1 GB at Rs 10, which the ET report says is about one-tenth of the current 3G prices.
Infotel was the only entity to get pan-India licence in the auction of Broadband Wireless Access spectrum conducted by the government last year, and thus RIL now is the only company to have pan-India spectrum to offer wireless broadband services on the 4G technology platform having paid Rs 13,000 crore (Rs 130 billion) for these airwaves.
The company had earlier planned to launch services by mid next year on data cards that could be plugged into computers and laptops, the ET report added.
If RIL does indeed launch Rs 3,500-tablets with affordable 4G data services, it would create a major upheaval in the telecom industry, effectively nullifying 'the business case for 3G for existing mobile operators all of whom on an average offer 1 GB of downloads for Rs 100 currently', says the report.
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