As we know Reliance Jio is awaiting approvals for the pan-India MSO licence, the company is rapidly strengthening its team. Mukesh-Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL) has appointed former Den Network CEO SN Sharma to lead multi system operator segment.
Sharma has over 20 years of experience in electronic media industry. He is credited with creating one of the biggest MSO network, Den Networks.He will be responsible for the day to day operations of Reliance Jio and will be an integral part of the top management. Sharma will be reporting to Reliance Jio CEO K. Jayaraman and has joined the office starting 23 February.
The company is currently awaiting approvals for the pan-India MSO licence. It had applied for a cable television multi-system operator (MSO) license last month as part of its step to enter the broadcast distribution sector. Reliance Jio has plans to start 4G services across most of the telecom circles soon. It has pan-India 20MHz broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum in the 2,300MHz frequency band in 22 telecom circles and 5-7MHz spectrum in the 1,800 MHz band in 14 circles which it plans to use for offering high-speed 4G services.