Reliance Jio 4G subscriber base stands at 109 mn

Reliance Jio Infocomm, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited has a subscriber base of 109 million subscribers as of March 31, 2017.

Reliance Jio has built a next generation all-IP data network with latest 4G LTE technology. It is the only network built as a mobile video network and providing Voice over LTE technology.

Since commencement of services on 5th September 2016, Reliance Jio has become the fastest growing technology company in the world. The company crossed 50 million subscribers in just 83 days, and 100 million in 170 days, adding at an average rate of 6 lakh subscribers per day. Jio continues its rapid ramp-up of subscriber base and as of 31st March 2017, there were 108.9 million subscribers on the network.

With more than 110 crore GB of data traffic per month and 220 crore voice and video minutes a day, Jio has become the largest network globally in terms of data carried and contributed to India becoming the leading country in the world for mobile data usage.

Jio users are today consuming nearly as much data as on all the mobile networks in the USA and 50 per cent more data than mobile networks in China in a clear indication that India will adopt digitisation and digital life faster than anyone else in the world.

Jio has the world’s largest greenfield 4G LTE wireless broadband network, with over 100,000 mobile towers. And it will add another 100,000 towers to the network in the coming months. Jio is the only operator which has deployed pan-India LTE network across the 800 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2300 MHz bands, giving it tremendous capacity advantage.

Within a month of announcing the Jio Prime Offer, over 72 million Jio customers signed up for Jio Prime, making it one of the most successful customer privilege programmes anywhere in the world.

Jio further announced new all unlimited plans with special benefits aimed at encouraging Jio subscribers to live the digital life without restrictions – Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan. The plans start with the most affordable `309 ALL UNLIMITED PLAN', which provides unlimited SMS, calling and data (1 GB per day at 4G speed) for 3 months on first recharge.

Towards enablement of customer convenience, Jio started home delivery of SIM, and has seen massive uptake. Jio’s bouquet of applications has also seen growing usage in the last quarter. Mobile Number Portability (MNP), which allows consumers to retain their existing mobile number when they switch to Jio, is available for all consumers.

The company continues to make progress on the roll-out of its Fibre to the Home (FTTH) business offering with beta trials initiated in a few locations. It would expand the scope of the beta trials over the next few months.