Jio Phone bookings crossed the 6 million mark within a day
Around 6 million units of JioPhone were booked within three days of its pre-booking that started on August 24, says a channel partner of Reliance Retail.
Jio Phone deliveries will start on Navratri, which begins on September 21 this year, the sources say. This will end the confusion about the Jio Phone delivery date as the company has not officially given a schedule yet, except that it will start shipping sometime in September. Bookings for the first Jio-branded phone from metros, tier-2 and tier-3 cities, and rural areas in roughly the same amount.
E-mails sent to Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail did not elicit any response. Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, in his previous annual general meeting speech, had said the company plans to sell five million JioPhones every week. The pre-booking of JioPhones started on 24 August against payment of a refundable deposit of Rs.500/- and the remainder Rs.1,000/- has to be paid by the customer when the company starts delivering them in September.
Ambani had announced that the total amount will be refunded after 36 months, when the customer returns the phone. According to the industry source, nearly 10 million people have shown interest in JioPhone. According to CyberMedia Research, a total of 61.8 million mobiles were shipped in the second quarter of 2017. With six million units of sale, JioPhone is estimated to account for around 10% of India’s total mobile phone market in a quarter.
Ambani had announced that voice calling for customers of JioPhone would always be free and they would get unlimited data for a month against a payment of Rs153. JioPhone, which can be operated by speaking out instructions to dial, type messages and the like, will come with pre-loaded Jio apps for messaging and entertainment.
The phone can be connected with television sets for watching live TV, using the Jio TV app. The phone will also include some of the popular instant messaging and social networking apps.
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