The latest high profile company to invest in India’s Jio Platforms is Qualcomm. The US chip provider has a track record of taking stakes in operators in order to increase momentum behind some of its key technologies, and the latest example is a $97m investment, through its venture arm – though that will get it only a 0.15% stake. However, the move is strategic, as it was for Facebook, whose larger investment kicked off a 12-week run of deals for stakes in Jio Platforms – the subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL) which controls disruptive MNO Reliance Jio. Although some of the total of $15.7bn raised in these 12 transactions will be used to pay off Jio’s debt, the operator has…