Low cost tablet was a concept which was brought into motion by Telecom minister Mr Kapil Sibal and it appears that his idea has been hijacked by corporate giant, Mukesh-Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), which plans to launch its fourth generation (4G) services later this year and sell tablets at cheap price of around Rs.3,500.
Mukesh Ambani may in a joint venture with DataWind or with any other entity may launch 4G services in India. RIL 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 for these airwaves.
The 4G, also called long term evolution (LTE), will have much higher speed than 3G and many telecom companies are gearing up for its worldwide launch early this year.
As it is AAkash has run into rough weather due to technical defects and Data wind has refused to upgrade the second tranche of 70,000 Aakash tablets with improved specifications, for which it sought more funds. However, it will supply the second tranche of improved Aakash tablets at the original price of Rs.2,250. However it needs to be seen that how much efficacy it will have in present Indian rural environement. Do check out original concept of AAkash Tablet here.
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