LTE Stories in Africa & Indonesia Suggest Reliance Jio’s Success in Data-Starved India

Reliance Jio is all ready with guns and bullets as the commercial operations will go live by December this year. While everyone concerned believe that Jio will disrupt the market causing existing players to bleed, let’s take a look at how Jio’s data- only model can work in India.

Though Jio has been in the limelight of technology media from the very first, we were actually given information by Jio only as much as they wanted us to know. Still there is no update about Jio’s voice policy – is it VOLTE or VoIP or a fall back to Reliance Communications’ 2G network?

Jio wants to be more than just a data service provider; rather they have pushed their fiber plan to reach millions of Indians’ homes. They have laid some, borrowed from others and have become a part of international submarine cable (Bay of Bengal Gateway).

Without voice or being a ‘dumb pipe’ model is nothing new. Rather, before LTE went mainstream, there were some WIMAX players who relied upon data- only model. Some succeeded, some did not – but everyone moved to LTE eventually.

Let us take a look at how LTE has changed the scenario in Africa and Indonesia.

In Africa, there has been a recent surge in telecom investment, and a lot is coming in the form of LTE deployment. There are several players who earlier rolled out WiMAX, and are now offering LTE.

A List of Africa’s data- only LTE operators:

List of Government Medical Colleges in West Bengal

This is the list of Govt. Medical Colleges in WB, affiliated by WB University of Health Sciences (WBUHS). 

They all offer MBBS courses, not sure about nursing courses, medical technology courses or post MBBS PG/diploma/DNB courses. MBBS admissions are based on NEET-UG ranks and counselling. 

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) was first introduced in India in 2013. NEET-UG was created as a single, national entrance exam for admission to undergraduate medical (MBBS), dental (BDS), and AYUSH courses. It replaced the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) and various state-level entrance exams.

NMC lists 780 colleges across the country who provides 1,18,190 MBBS seats (updated on April, 2025). That time Bengal holds 5,700 MBBS seats in 37 medical colleges.