How Jio and Facebook could work together to make inroads into India’s Internet

NEW DELHI : Social networking giant, Facebook Inc, has bought a 9.99% stake in India’s Reliance Jio, which gives both companies an opportunity to make key inroads into India’s Internet landscape. As a result of the partnership, Reliance Retail will use WhatsApp to get more customers onto its grocery delivery platform JioMart, but that’s certainly not the only way these two companies could work together.

Here’s a look at various products that Jio and Facebook already have, which could be mutually beneficial for each other.

Mobile Gaming

India’s mobile gaming landscape has been on fire since Reliance Jio’s entry into the telecom space. Cheap data costs and easier access to the Internet allowed developers to reach more gamers. According to many developers, Jio is hugely instrumental in India’s changing mobile gaming landscape, whereas Facebook is more of a been-there phenomenon.