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Cash-strapped Vi has been unable to match Bharti Airtel and Jio on 4G capex spends, and is accordingly seen as more prone to customer churn.

The two older carriers together have nearly million 2G users and Bharti Airtel recently doled out cashback offers to ringfence its 2G subscriber base in the run-up to JioPhone Next's launch. The phone will be powered by Pragati OS, which Reliance Jio has developed in partnership with Google for the new smartphone. Handset retailers have raised concerns around any deposit scheme being offered for the JioPhone Next smartphone, claiming that they face issues in filing for Goods and Services Tax GST against a deposit slip for the device which is not docked as a sale.

We have a strong connectivity base today," Ram Sewak Sharma, chief executive of the National Health Authority of India said, adding that India has the highest data consumption which is about 12 GB per person a month.

It has sought support of Rs 40, crore from the government out of which it wants to use Rs 20, crore for the purchase of indigenously developed 4G technology. Bharti Airtel is considering co-branded smartphone deals with handset makers and bundled data and voice offers to bring down the effective price of a smartphone, as the company seeks to ring-fence its 2G subscribers ahead of the JioPhone Next launch. Jio has delayed the launch of its ultra-low-cost smartphone it is developing with Google, to Diwali, possibly due to semiconductor shortages that the industry is facing.

The Jio Phone Next has been designed in partnership with Google and it is for those who are looking to upgrade from 2G to 4G connectivity.

The phone was previously to be launched on September Mukesh Ambani-led Jio gained 5. Morgan Stanley estimates Jio to report a 5. Under this, Jio will allow its prepaid users to borrow up to 5 emergency data loan packs of 1 GB each valued Rs 11 per pack , the telecom operator said.

Airtel has been refarming its 2G and 3G airwaves for 4G services and has been pushing its feature phone users to go 4G. The device comes with a tweaked Android operating system named Pragati, which means progress, and is aimed at first-time smartphone buyers with features such as quick translations in 10 Indian languages and a voice assistant which can read that text out aloud from the screen. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this week that the device partnership with Jio was about investing in local languages, other than English, so that many more Indians can use smartphones.

And, you know, I think over a three- to five-year time frame, it will.