Reliance, Samsung to Attempt LTE Disruption in India

Reliance Industries reportedly is working with Samsung on a plan to disrupt the Indian smart phone market with a new Long Term Evolution device priced at 3G device levels as low as $100, plus service plans that include data packages starting at as low as Rs 100.

To help, the new devices will be sold with minimum down payments and installment payments with no interest.

That would be significant enough. But there are rumors that Samsung might eventually wind up as an equity partner in some way in the venture with Reliance.

That would be equally interesting, if also politically delicate.


But some amount of ecosystem tension seems difficult to avoid, in the mobile or Internet spaces.