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Nokia may soon enter 4G feature phone market in India

Drawing from the success of the revolutionary JioPhone (owned by  Reliance Industries ), handset maker Nokia may soon foray into the 4G feature phone market, various media reports quoted Ajay Mehta, India VP for HMD Global as saying. HMD Global is the company that develops and markets feature phones and smartphones under the Nokia brand name. The company has been operational since December 2016, after it bought Microsoft Mobile's feature phone business. The move follows the extraordinary success of Reliance's JioPhone, which has pushed other handset makers and telecom operators to work on lower-cost 4G LTE devices. At the moment, Lava, Intex, Idea and Airtel are all working on developing such devices. HMD Global is in talks with multiple telecom operators to collaborate for its plan. Although it has a number of feature phones in the Indian market already, none of the existing Nokia feature phones can function on 4G LTE only networks. "Feature phone is a critica...