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Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Thursday said India was set to become a fully 4G country by 2020, with every mobile phone in India equipped with 4G data connectivity. He was speaking at the annual Indian Mobile Congress in New Delhi. "India has moved from 155th rank in mobile broadband penetration to being the number 1 nation in mobile data consumption in the world... in less than two years. This is the fastest transition anywhere in the world from 2G/3G to 4G. By 2020, I believe that India will be a fully 4G country and ready for 5G ahead of others. Every phone in India will be a 4G enabled phone and every customer will have access to 4G connectivity," Ambani said. Here is the full speech of Mukesh Ambani , whose Reliance Jio Infocomm has come up in the past few years as a major disruptor in the telecom data space Business Standard

After catapulting India to being the world's largest mobile data consuming nation, RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani Thursday said Jio's fibre-based broadband offering can place the country among the top three nations in fixed broadband from a low rank of 135 currently. He also said India has moved from 155th rank in mobile broadband penetration to being the number one nation in mobile data consumption in the world in less than two years. The country has an unparalleled combination of connectivity with affordability. "This is the fastest transition anywhere in the world from 2G/3G to 4G," he said. "By 2020, I believe that India will be a fully-4G country and ready for 5G ahead of others." By 2020, every phone in India will be a 4G-enabled phone and every customer will have access to 4G connectivity, he said. Jio is committed to "connecting everyone and everything, everywhere, always with the highest quality and the most affordable price,...