Collaboration amongst Google and Reliance Jio to create cost-effective smartphones is going at a brisk pace, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was reported as saying today. Pichai stated that Google continues with its Indian companion Reliance Jio on the initiative and work on that front is undergoing, news agency PTI reported.
The comments from Pichai come in the wake of each the organizations signing a industrial agreement last year to create a simple, entry level cost-effective smartphone for a massive population that remains deprived of smartphone and online connectivity. Google whilst signing the agreement had also purchased about 7.7 % stake in Reliance Jio worth Rs 33737 crore.
The comments from the major Google official came in the course of the virtual press conference he was addressing for choose reporters from the Asia Pacific area. The Indian origin CEO of Google stated that the organizations are working on building the phone with focus and committed to make progress on the project. While adequate has been stated about the Jio-Google initiative of building an cost-effective phone, the value variety along with other launch information stay cloaked. Pichai, when asked about the probable value and launch date of the phone, refused to share any information.
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio which brought the day-to-day online revolution in the Indian telecom situation at the time of its launch is aiming at tapping a massive rural population in the nation by building an cost-effective smartphone with the American organization. Availability of low-priced smartphones along with cost-effective online information plans does not only have the prospective to make the online accessible to more persons but also help government service delivery initiatives.
Asked if the Covid-19 crisis had impacted the progress of the projects, Pichai stated that the pandemic has shown the critical function technologies and online can play in the lives of persons. He additional stated that the organization had deepened its efforts in the course of the Covid-19 crisis which includes via solutions like Google Meets and making sure that they run smoothly on the online networks of telecom organizations.
Google’s choice to get about 7 % stake in Reliance Jio is portion of its Google for India Digitisation Fund below which the organization plans to invest a total of Rs 75000 crore in the nation more than the next 5-7 years to assistance persons get secure access to digital technologies.