Reliance JIO Infocomm Logo_bigFor the first time Mukesh Ambani has made an official statement regarding the date of launch of 4G broadband services by Reliance Jio on a Pan India scale. While addressing the shareholders in the 40th annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani declared that Jio will roll out its services in 2015 in a phased manner. RIL promoted Jio holds pan-India broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum that can be used for 4G services. The company had acquired it through auction for Rs 12,847.77 crore. According to Ambani, Reliance Jio’s network and broadband services will be ubiquitous, “initially covering all states, all the 5,000 towns and cities accounting for over 90 percent of urban India and over 215,000 villages in India.” Eventually, Ambani said, Reliance Jio’s network will encompass each of our over 600,000 villages.

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Ambani added that Reliance Jio’s 4G broadband initiative was a Rs. 70,000 crore investment for the company, Speaking on the plans of building a ‘country-wide broadband next-generation infrastructure’, Ambani said that “there are over 100,000 people working across the country in creating the digital infrastructure backbone for this network. They are passionate about building the largest broadband network that the world has ever seen. Reliance Jio will be one of the largest job-creating and wealth-creating business initiatives in India.”

Reliance is already in the process of field trials across key cities and the expanded field trials will commence from August this year and continue till the end of 2014 or extend up to early 2015. As per the rules, 2015 is last year for all companies who won BWA spectrum to roll out the services in at least 90 per cent of the service areas failing which the Department of Telecom will have the right to withdraw the spectrum.