Reliance jio

by Gaurav Gupta Digital Marketing

Beta launching

The 4G services have been introduced internally to Jio's partners, its workers and their families on 27 December 2015. The closed occasion was witnessed by over 35000 RIL workers lots of whom were virtually connected from around 1000 locations including Dallas in the United States of America.

Commercial launching

The company commercially launched its services on 5 September 2016. Within the first month of commercial operations, Jio declared that it had acquired 16 million subscribers. This is the fastest ramp-up by any mobile network operator anywhere in the world. From October 2017 it had about 130 million subscribers. Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited or Jio is an LTE mobile network operator in India. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries headquartered in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra which provides wireless 4G LTE service community (without 2G/3G-based services) and is the only 'VoLTE-only' (Voice over LTE) operator in the country which lacks legacy system assistance of 2G and 3G, with policy across all 22 telecom circles in India.

The services were first beta-launched to Jio's spouses and employees on 27 December 2015 on the eve of birth anniversary of late Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Industries, and afterwards, services were commercially introduced on 5th September 2016.

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JIO Phone

On 21 July 2017, Jio introduced its first cheap 4G characteristic phone, powered by KaiOS, named as Jio Phone. The price announced for it is ₹ 0 with a security deposit of ₹ 1500 which can be withdrawn back by the user by returning the Jio Phone at Jio stores just after 3 decades. This phone had been released to beta users on 15 August 2017 and pre-booking for regular users began on 24 August 2017.