Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom operator, has given its views/opinion on the 2G customers in India. The corporate has mentioned that India would not have digital divide, it has a cellular tech generational hole. To place emphasis on this level, Shyam P Mardikar, president and group CTO, mobility at Reliance Jio Infocomm mentioned that rural customers in Bihar, UP, and Maharashtra eat extra knowledge than customers in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru.
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Talking on the second version of the ET Telecom 5G Innovation Summit 2025, Mardikar added, “The agricultural person has higher gadgets, extra consumption, and extra time spent (on the web).”
So it’s extra of a cellular tech generational hole in India, fairly than precise digital divide. If customers do not improve to 4G gadgets, they’re lacking out on the wonders that the digital world and the comfort it guarantees. At the moment, 2G customers cannot even leverage UPI, which isn’t signal if India desires to be a digital first nation.
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Nonetheless, the federal government and the telcos cannot simply merely additionally swap off 2G for the customers. Jio, for the file, would not have a single 2G person. The 2G customers are on the networks of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Thought, and BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted).
“Our divide is the shopper’s incapacity to hook up with the digital ecosystem. One of many greatest divides we’re speaking about is the (cellular know-how) generational hole,” he added.
Mukesh Ambani, CMD of Reliance Industries Restricted, has usually talked about making India a “2G Mukt” nation. It is going to take years for this to occur, nevertheless. It is because tens of millions of customers nonetheless haven’t got a 4G telephone, and thus, if 2G shuts down, they are going to be neglected of connectivity.
