A spokesperson at Reliance Jio did not want to comment on the development. However, Dutt declined to give further details. Besides looking leading the launch of the third-party devices for the fourth generation (4G) services of Reliance Jio, Dutt is likely to work on developing the company's own-branded handset in future. However, the handsets are likely to be manufactured from third party.
Like other key officials of Reliance Jio, Dutt will be based in Mumbai.Before his stintat BlackBerry India, Dutt worked as the president (personal systems group) at Hewlett - Packard India. Dutt hadalso worked as the country head for Samsung's mobile business and had worked with Nokia as sales head prior to his stint at Samsung.