Friday, June 12, 2015

RelJio Tsunami coming in December'15.

Mukesh Ambani just spelled out the launch plans for Jio at Reliance Industries' AGM. First let me highlight the salient points mentioned:

* Jio is already present in all 29 states in 18,000 cities & towns. 80% countrywide coverage at the start.

* Jio currently undergoing testing, Beta launch in a couple of months and Full Commercial launch in December'2015.

* Jio network will be scaled up to 100% countrywide coverage in 3 years.

* Jio already has capability to serve 100 million customers, which will be scaled up further in coming years.

* Jio is working with OEMs to introduce 4G handsets from under Rs.4000 price point by December'15.

* Several apps are ready for launch, like JioChat (audio-video messenger), JioDrive (cloud storage), JioPlay (media & entertainment), JioMoney (digital wallet), etc.

* Jio has also applied for MSO license to offer broadcasting services over it's 4G & Fibre network.

......... More details & views will be added soon to this article.

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