With the commercial launch of services by Reliance Jio drawing closer day by day, the company has taken every measure possible to ensure a large scale smooth roll out of services on a Pan India level. Rjio has signed tower sharing deals with Tower vision, ACT India, Viom networks, Bharti AirTel and also with younger brother Anil Ambani’s company Reliance communications. Rjio has signed multiple deals with Rcom which includes sharing of 1,20,000 KM of inter city optic fiber, 5,00,000 KM of intra city optic fiber and 45,000 telecom towers.

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Now Rjio is taking this affiliation with Rcom one step further, the two companies will soon tie up with each other for maintenance and servicing of infrastructure, common network operating centres, data centres, content and retail outlets, apart from intra-circle roaming agreements involving RCOM’s CDMA (800 MHz) 3G (2100 MHz) 2G(1800MHz)bandwidth and Jio’s 4G (1800,2300 MHz) spectrum reports ET .

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The Plan of action:

Reliance Jio had acquired 20MHz of spectrum in the 2300MHz band in all 22 telecom circles by its acquisition of Infotel Broadband in 2010. In Feb 2014 it bagged more than 5MHz of spectrum in the 1800MHz band in 14 telecom circles. The device eco system capable of supporting TD-LTE on 2300MHz is very limited which makes it unsuitable for use deployment for retail customers. The number of towers required for providing FD-LTE on 1800MHz is large and it would have limited indoor coverage, besides Rjio does not have 1800MHz spectrum in all telecom circles. To overcome these limitations Rjio has decided to enter into spectrum sharing deal with Rcom which has Pan India spectrum in 800 and 1800MHz bands and 5MHz of spectrum in 2100MHz band in 13 telecom circles.

In the 800MHz band Rcom has 5MHz of spectrum in 12 circles, 3.75MHz of spectrum in 6 circles and 2.5MHz of spectrum in 4 circles. For CDMA operations Rcom is using one carrier of 1.25MHz for voice and 1x data and one carrier of 1.25MHz for EVDO rev.A data (Equivalent of 3G in GSM). So in 12 circles it has 2.5MHz of spectrum and in 6 circles it has 1.25MHz of spectrum lying vacant and unused, this spectrum will be used for deploying FD-LTE on 800MHz once the new government liberalises the spectrum awarded before the new telecom policy came into force. Both companies plan to deploy LTE advanced by carrier aggregation offering FD-LTE on Rcom’s 800MHz and Rjio’s 1800MHz band simultaneously to provide seamless outdoor and indoor coverage. In areas where there is no LTE coverage the network will fall back to Rcom’s 3G on 2100MHz so that there isn’t a drastic fall in data speeds from LTE to 2G for Rjio customers. As for voice the network will fall back to Rcom’s Pan India 2G network on 1800MHz band through CSFB technology. As a result of this, both Rjio and Rcom will be able to provide seamless 2G, 3G and 4G services on a Pan India level.