“This advancement has the potential to generate new revenue streams for the Indian telecom industry, offering faster and more reliable internet access to residential and enterprise sectors,” said Pradeepthi Kantipudi, Telecom Analyst at GlobalData.
The JioAirFiber service is available in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune on the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.
Jio has also launched FWA plans under two categories – AirFiber, and AirFiber Max, with prices starting from Rs 599 and with speeds of 30Mbps. Depending on the price, JioAirFiber users will get access to over 550 digital channels, and over 14 over-the-top (OTT) applications, as well as Netflix, Amazon Prime, JioCinema Premium, and others.
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), at the company’s latest annual general meeting said that despite Jio’s vast optical fibre footprint, providing last-mile connectivity is “a painstaking process in most parts of our country”. “This leaves millions of potential customers without home broadband due to complexities and delays involved in extending optical fibre to their premises. This is where JioAirFiber, our fixed-wireless broadband offering, comes in,” Ambani had said.
Market and industry have looked up at every occasion including AGMs to get an idea about the much-awaited IPO. The 46the AGM of RIL didn't mention it even as it did on several other Jio initiatives.
“Very encouragingly, the quality of the subscribers is improving on a day by day basis, with much high mix of postpaid customers coming on board, in addition to the adoption of our set-top-box (STB),” Reliance Industries Limited president Kiran Thomas said during the presentation.
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