Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Mukesh Ambani |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
Area served | India |
Key people |
Mr.Sanjay Mashruwala (Managing Director and Director ) Mr. Rainer Deutschmann(CEO) Mr. Sunil Dutt (President) Mr.Mathew Oommen (President of Strategy and Network ) Mr.Ashirwad Tillu (Senior Vice President ) Mr. Rainer Deutschmann (Chief Products and Innovation Officer) |
| Parent | Reliance Industries |
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (commonly called RJIL) is an Indian Internet access (commonly called "broadband") and telecommunications company headquartered in Mumbai, India. RJIL is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India’s largest private sector company, is the first telecom operator to hold pan India Unified License. This license authorises RJIL to provide all telecommunication services except Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite. Company holds Universal Service License and is the only pan India operator with Broadband Wireless Access (‘BWA’) spectrum for commercial Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services across 22 circles capable of offering fourth generation (4G) LTE wireless services across India.
Reliance Jio is setting up a pan India telecom infrastructure to provide fourth generation 4G LTE TDD high speed wireless internet and mobile communication services which may be launched by June 2015.
The company is in process to set-up the 4G LTE infrastructure which will also be an enabler for a portfolio of rich multi-media digital services including education, health-care, entertainment, payment and cloud services for millions of individuals,homes and businesses across India.
RJIL holds spectrum in 1800 MHz (across 14 circles) and 2300 MHz (across 22 circles) capable of offering fourth generation (4G) wireless services. RJIL plans to provide seamless 4G services using FDD-LTE on 1800 MHz and TDD-LTE on 2300 MHz through an integrated ecosystem.
RJIL is setting up a pan India telecom network to provide to the highly underserviced India market, reliable (4th generation) high speed internet connectivity, rich communication services and various digital services on pan India basis in key domains such as education, healthcare, security, financial services, government citizen interfaces and entertainment. RJIL aims to provide anytime, anywhere access to innovative and empowering digital content, applications and services, thereby propelling India into global leadership in digital economy.
RJIL is also deploying an enhanced packet core network to create futuristic high capacity infrastructure to handle huge demand for data and voice. In addition to high speed data, the 4G network will provide voice services from / to non-RJIL networks.
Reliance Jio is part of the “Bay Of Bengal Gateway” Cable System, planned to provide connectivity between South East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East, and also to Europe, Africa and to the Far East Asia through interconnections with other existing and newly built cable systems landing in India, the Middle East and Far East Asia.
RJIL’s subsidiary has been awarded with a Facility Based Operator License (“FBO License”) in Singapore which will allow it to buy, operate and sell undersea and/or terrestrial fibre connectivity, setup its internet point of presence, offer internet transit and peering services as well as data and voice roaming services in Singapore.
RJIL has finalised key agreements with its technology partners, service providers, infrastructure providers, application partners, device manufacturers and other strategic partners for the project. These strategic partners have committed significant resources, know-how and global talent to support planning, deployment and testing activities currently underway.
Agreements
- An agreement with Ascend Telecom for their more than 4,500 towers across India. (June 2014)
- An agreement with Tower Vision for their 8,400 towers across India. (May 2014)
- An agreement with ATC India for their 11,000 towers across India. (April 2014)
- An agreement with Viom Networks for their 42,000 telecom towers. (March 2014)
- Agreement with Bharti Airtel for a comprehensive telecom infrastructure sharing agreement to share infrastructure created by both parties to avoid duplication of infrastructure wherever possible. (December 2013)
- A key agreement for international data connectivity with Bharti to utilise dedicated fiber pair of Bharti’s i2i submarine cable that connects India and Singapore. (April 2013)
- Agreements with Reliance Communications Limited for sharing of RCOM’s extensive inter-city and intra-city optic fiber infrastructure of nearly 1,20,000 fiber-pair kilometers of optic fiber and 500,000 fiber pair kilometers respectively (April 2013 / April 2014), and 45,000 towers (June 2013).
From less than 700 professionals a year back, the RJIL Jio team has grown rapidly to a national footprint of over 10,000 professionals today.
Acquisition & Subsidiaries
- Acquired Infotel Broadband Services Limited in 2010.
- Technology - Rancore Technologies
- ILD & NLD - Infotel Telecom
Technology
- Reliance Jio Infocomm is currently laying OFC across the country to offer Fiber to the home/premises (FTTH). This fiber backbone will also help them to carry huge amount of data originated from their 4G network as well as public WiFi network.
- Reliance Jio is deploying LTE-TDD technology for 2.3 GHz spectrum band, acquired in 2010.
- Reliance Jio will deploy LTE-FDD for 1.8 GHz spectrum, which will ultimately paved to roll out of LTE-A network aggregation of both technology and both spectrum band.
- At present in different cities of India Reliance Jio offers WiFi services. Most of these cities are in Gujarat, where Reliance Industries also have one of the largest petro-refinery.
- Once commercially launched, Jio users can have access to Reliance Communications' 2G & 3G network.
See also
- 4G
- Telecommunications Statistics in India
- Airtel India
- Tikona Digital Networks
- Aircel
References
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