Reliance shareholders got a surprise visit from Google Chief Sundar Pichai at RIL's 44th AGM as Mukesh Ambani announced the much awaited Google-Jio phone christened JioPhone Next which will be available from September 10 at a shop near you.
But the connect with Google is going beyond the phone, addressing the RIL AGM Sundar Pichai announced a new 5G partnership between Google Cloud and Jio. Pichai said "This Jio partnership will help more than a billion Indians connect to a faster internet, support businesses in digital transformation and lay foundation for next phase of India’s digitization."
Mukesh Ambani reiterated Jio's commitment to affordable internet for all which he said can be done only "when India becomes 4G mukt and 5G rich".