Reliance Launches $13 4G Phones to Target India's 2G Users

• Reliance's Jio Platforms has launched two new 4G-enabled handsets, JioBharat V3 and JioBharat V4, priced at 1099 rupees ($13).
• The phones are aimed at the hundreds of millions of Indians still using slower 2G networks.
• The devices offer access to live TV, music, video streaming, and digital payments.
• Jio Platforms, backed by Google and Meta, is India's largest telecom network with about 490 million paying subscribers.
• The phones will only work on the Jio network, a strategy to make more people primarily reliant on its platform.

Source: Techcrunch