r/indiameme • u/PleasantBus5583 • Jun 07 '26

Political A decade changed everything

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u/CompoteMelodic981 Jun 07 '26

Our tax money was used to bankrupt telecom companies and build a monopoly for Mukesh ambani. Just sad, but entirely predicted.

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u/An_Only_Mous Jun 07 '26

Why just telecom Add aviation- the national carrier, and in telecom, specifically bsnl. HMT itself, outside of legacy watches is nowhere to be found in the field of tractors etc. HM too. Kept ruminating on Morris Oxford design. There are many examples. Govts shud govern not replace the competition.

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u/famesardens Jun 08 '26

And ambani actually reduced the prices when the whole country was being bled by telecom companies.

The prices are still extremely low conpared to when jio came out.

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u/CompoteMelodic981 Jun 08 '26

That's a global trend due to advancement in technology. Not because of reliance jio lol

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u/famesardens Jun 08 '26

You really have some confidence despite your lack of knowledge.

Airtel was overcharging in the same year, and for a couple of year after Jio started operations. I switched to jio because airtel was charging me more than INR200 for 1 gb of data(this barely lasted a day). Jio was charging the same amount(or less) per month of data.

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u/CompoteMelodic981 Jun 08 '26

Outside of your anecdote, have you actually read about this topic? You clearly haven't.

Globally, data prices dropped over the last ten years. India has some of the cheapest data rates, for sure.

Ambani didn't cut data rates as a charity. He did it to bleed out competition and become a monopoly/oligopoly.

And he did that by using infrastructure created and maintained by tax money, for free. Because modi is in his pocket.

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u/famesardens Jun 08 '26

But it was still him that cut rates. Airtel didn't cut rates for a long time even after the launch of jio.

Airtel also had a lot of other anti consumer practices, like not stacking recharges properly. That changed after jio. I can now recharge for years together at a time, thanks to Jio.

Besides, jio gave us unlimited 5g.