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Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:57:11 David Rosenthal And IPL was a big part of this, because there's something else that happens in India the year before in 2016, which is Reliance launches Reliance Geo.
- ▶ 2:57:34 David Rosenthal What is Reliance Geo?
- ▶ 2:57:39 David Rosenthal It's a telecom wireless data service for smartphones in India, and Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Geo basically slashed the price of data plans to effectively zero in India.
- ▶ 2:57:53 David Rosenthal Before Reliance Geo launched in 2016, smartphone ownership in India was de minimis.
- ▶ 2:58:40 David Rosenthal Reliance Geo comes in, thirty million handsets when they launched in 2016.
- ▶ 3:04:15 David Rosenthal You've got the major tailwind of Reliance Geo, you've got the professionalization, you've got the local languages,
- ▶ 3:06:00 David Rosenthal That was the big bet and the payoff of the Reliance Geo entering the data market in 2016 and smartphone adoption just exploding in India.
- ▶ 3:10:29 Ben Gilbert But who better to bet on that materializing than Reliance Geo?