Reliance Retail to resume JioPhone booking post Diwali

About six million Jiophones were booked by people in just three days when company opened bookings of 4G feature phone from August 24 in first phase

Reliance Retail will start the second phase of booking for JioPhone post-Diwali after completing delivery of about six million mobile devices that were booked in August, an industry source said.

"The second phase of JioPhone booking will start after Diwali. Likely from October-end or November first week," a Reliance Retail channel partner told PTI.

About six million Jiophones were booked by people in just three days when the company opened bookings of the 4G feature phone from August 24 in the first phase.

Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani had announced that the 4G phone will be "effectively free" for users,