Reliance Jio has amassed over 6 million Jio Phone bookings within a day, according to sources close to the company. The bookings started on August 24[1], and continued till early on August 26 before the company stopped taking Jio Phone pre-orders[2], both online and offline. Apparently the 6 million Jio Phone bookings exceeded the Reliance Jio's expectations, even though Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani[3] had announced at the time of unveiling the handset that company aims to deliver 5 million units per week.
Earlier, Reliance Jio[4] had halted bookings for its first feature phone saying “millions” had already booked the Jio phone, but it did not give a concrete figure. Apart from the 6 million bookings, an additional 10 million people have registered interest in the device via the Keep Me Posted form on the company's site, Gadgets 360 has learned.
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Reliance Jio reportedly aims to sell 100 million units of Jio Phone[6] in the first year, and another 100 million units the next year. With these 200 million units, the company would be able to bring on board consumers who did not join the Jio telecom network that was launched last year, likely due to the prohibitive costs of smartphones. At the July 21 AGM, Ambani had announced the company has a user base of 125 million. According to a recent report[7], half of the phones shipped in the second quarter of the year were LTE-enabled, and is expected to hit 90 percent-level. With the 4G VoLTE-enabled Jio Phone in the market, the proliferation of 4G phones is likely to fasten up.
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