So its very great news.Reliance is planning to launch tablets at as low a price as Rs 3,500 bundled with a high-speed data offering of 1 GB at Rs 10, which the ET report says is about one-tenth of the current 3G prices.Infotel was the only entity to get pan-India licence in the auction of Broadband Wireless Access spectrum conducted by the government last year, and thus RIL now is the only company to have pan-India spectrum to offer wireless broadband services on the 4G technology platform having paid Rs 13,000 crore (Rs 130 billion) for these airwaves.
Media reports also state that Reliance plans to launch broadband Data service in about 700 Indian cities in the first phase, with data speeds ranging from 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps.
It is also learnt that Reliance is in the process of appointing merchants who would supply broadband equipment based on Qualcomm's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology so that it can roll out its wireless broadband service by the end of 2012.
Towards this end, the company is also said to be in talks with mobile tower firms to lease 26,000 towers across India for the ambitious launch.
RIL has a 95 per cent stake in Infotel Broadband Services which emerged as the sole successful bidder in all the 22 circles (pan-India) for the Broadband Wireless Access 4G Spectrum auction which was conducted by the Department of Telecom in June 2010. Global majors like Vodafone, Verizon and Telenor have deployed LTE networks in some developed markets.
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