Google says in cloud partnership with India's Jio in boost to 5G plans


FILE PHOTO A sign is seen at the entrance to the Google retail store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City U.S. June 17 2021. REUTERSShannon Stapleton

FILE PHOTO: A sign is seen at the entrance to the Google retail store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, U.S., June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is forging a cloud partnership with India's Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, helping the country's biggest wireless carrier with tech solutions for its enterprise and consumer offerings as it plans to launch 5G services.

The tie-up lends Jio the expertise of a global tech giant as it expands digital services to small and medium businesses as well as hundreds of millions of individual customers. And it gives Google the unmatched scale of Reliance whose new-age businesses range from telecoms to e-commerce.

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