Visionary figure: Ambani is betting on a fast-evolving Internet landscape in a country where nearly a billion people are still not online. Pictured is Ambani with his wife, Nita.
Outside a tiny Reliance store in a trendy Mumbai neighbourhood, residents queued for hours this week for a new SIM card promising free data and a dramatic reshaping of the Indian mobile landscape.
Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, announced his long-awaited Reliance Jio 4G network with an audacious free service for the rest of 2016, followed by vastly cheaper data plans and free voice calls for life.
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