Google says in cloud partnership with India’s Jio in boost to 5G plans

NEW DELHI: Alphabet Inc’s Google is forging a cloud partnership with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, helping the country’s biggest wireless carrier with tech solutions for its enterprise and consumer offerings as it plans to launch 5G services.

The tie-up lends Jio the expertise of a global tech giant as it expands digital services to small and medium businesses as well as hundreds of millions of individual customers. And, it gives Google the unmatched scale of Reliance whose new-age businesses range from telecoms to e-commerce.

Jio is part of tycoon billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s oil-to-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries.

“It’s a broad partnership, it involves multiple pieces of Alphabet working together,” Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer at Google Cloud, told Reuters in an interview ahead of Reliance’s annual shareholders meeting on Thursday.