{"id":1016242,"date":"2026-06-23T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016242"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:29:06","slug":"jio-platforms-aims-for-a-15-billion-global-opportunity-with-jiobharat-4g-feature-phones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/jio-platforms-aims-for-a-15-billion-global-opportunity-with-jiobharat-4g-feature-phones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jio Platforms aims for a $15 billion global opportunity with JioBharat 4G feature phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Jio Platforms (JPL) is pitching the indigenously developed JioBharat platform as a means to migrate millions of 2G subscribers to the fourth-generation (4G)-backed services in countries that have similar affordability-led challenges as India. <\/p>\n<p>It believes that the upgrade has a massive market and revenue-generation potential for digital connectivity providers. <\/p>\n<p>The one-time spend by nearly 729 million 2G subscribers on devices is a \u20b91.31 lakh crore (or ~$15 billion) market opportunity, according to JPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Jio Platforms (JPL) is pitching the indigenously developed JioBharat platform as a means to migrate millions of 2G subscribers to the fourth-generation (4G)-backed services in countries that have similar affordability-led challenges as India. It believes that the upgrade has a massive market and revenue-generation potential for digital connectivity providers. The one-time spend by nearly 729 million 2G subscribers on devices is a \u20b91.31 lakh crore (or ~$15 billion) market opportunity, according to JPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016262,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016242\/revisions\/1016262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}