Jio 5G Explained: Jio's hunt for dominance

Growth of technology in India
According to the report 'Indian Century' by IBM Institute for Business Value: India is a fast changing economy. In the coming years, India has been included in the most progressing countries. Perhaps that's why 21st century is called the century of India.

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A simple example of this is India's rapid development in the field of mobile, whether it is about mobile or internet service. If we talk about mobile, then till a decade ago, it was a big thing to have Nokia 1600, whereas in these few years almost every house has a smartphone. Now when the smartphone arrived, it needed internet to run it. And there are only two ways to run internet, either recharge or use broadband.

If we talk about broadband then India has a lot of population and most of the people are from middle class family. In this situation, using high speed internet like broadband is not a matter of everyone. Only those who do business or work related to the internet are able to pick up the speed of good internet. And another slightly simpler way is Internet recharge. But it was also no less painful. Only a few years ago, in the name of internet service, internet provider companies used to loot excessively in the name of internet service.

Now you can guess from the same thing that on recharging of ₹250 at one time, 1 GB of data was available for 3G only for 1 month. Now you think if we run this 1 GB in 4G, then it will be finished in 1 hour.

When did Jio launch 4G?
Mukesh Ambani founded Jio Soft Company on 27 December 2015 on the occasion of Late Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani's 83rd birthday. And talk about Jio, it was started for the general public on 5 September 2016.

History of Jio
In June 2010, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) bought a 96% share of Infotel Broadband Services Limited (IBSL) for Rs 4800 crore. Well a year ago, in the 4G auction, IBSL was the only company to win broadband spectrum of all 22 zones in India. Later this was bought by Reliance Industries Ltd and it worked on the basis of its subsidiary. Then in January 2013 Infotel Broadband Services Limited was renamed Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL).

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Reliance Jio reached its 387.49 million customers within just 4 years of launching and has become the country's number one telecom operator in terms of customers.

And now after 4G, the company is preparing to enter the 5G sector too. This has been revealed in the annual report of Reliance Industries. Reliance Industries has stated in its annual report that Reliance Jio will play a key role in developing the 5G ecosystem based on market dynamics. On floor prices for mobile services, RIL says that the increase in tariff prices by operators in December shows that the market dynamics have improved.

Jio spread internet Reliance Industries
Chairman Mukesh Ambani said that Jio has spread the Internet from door to door. In his letter to shareholders, Mukesh Ambani has said that millions of people are still using 2G phones. These people cannot use the Internet.

He said that the government has expressed its intention to conduct the next round of spectrum auction during the financial year 2020-21. As such, Jio is set to play an important role with its ready 5G network and fiber assets.

100 million feature phones converted to 4G network

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Mukesh Ambani said that in the last 2 years Jio has done the work of bringing 100 million feature phones (2G users) to the 4G network. He said that Jio's success in building technology for India and its ability to spread across the country has attracted global technology leaders like Facebook and Microsoft to partner in it.

Opportunity in retail sector
Mukesh Ambani said that Jio is the number 1 mobile telecom operator in the country in terms of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) and customers. It is a major catalyst in the broadband data market. According to the report, Jio has joined about one million homes with JioFiber Services by March 2020. Mukesh Ambani said that Reliance Retail and WhatsApp have formed a commercial partnership together.

Under this, Reliance's retail business will be further promoted on JioMart platform using WhatsApp will buy in stake. This will lead to an investment of Rs 33,737 crore in Jio platforms. Group Chairman Mukesh Ambani said at the 43rd AGM of Reliance Industries that Jio has prepared a 5G solution, which can be offered to customers by next year.

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Consumers will start getting 5G services when 5G spectrum will be made available by the government. He said that after providing 5G spectrum by the government, Jio platforms will also export 5G solutions to other telecom operators in the world.

Can also be used for security and surveillance
According to a Jio official, after Jio develops end-to-end 5G technology, the company will also be able to use it for security and surveillance using drones, industrial internet of things and digitization in agriculture. Jio has sought approval from the Department of Telecommunications to test 5G based on its technology.

It has also recently given a presentation to the Department of Telecommunications to explain technology and potential use cases. According to the company official, its technology will help Jio in commercial and flexibility.

However, talk about 5G handsets 5G smartphone in India 2020, Xiaomi Mi 10 5G, Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, Realme X50 Pro, Redmi K30 5G, OnePlus 8 Pro, Vivo iQOO 3, Huawei Mate 30 Pro in India There are names that support 5G. Talk about their price, it is roughly between 50 thousand and 60 thousand rupees.

Collaboration of RIL and Google
In such a situation, it will be interesting to see how much Jio which is bringing 5G smartphone together with Google will come.

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And how powerful it will be compared to the already existing handsets in the market. Let us know that Google already sells premium handsets of Pixel brand. At the same time, Reliance Life brought the smartphone of the brand at the time of the launch of Jio 4G, but it did not get any special response in the market.

It is reported that on July 13, Google has announced that it will invest around 10 billion dollars or 70 thousand crores in the field of digital technology in India in the next five to seven years. Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. The CEO Sundar Pichai said that due to the coronavirus epidemic, the importance of technology in business and personal has been understood on a large scale.

Mukesh Ambani also mentioned that the total assets of the company were debt free. He said that the company has become a company with zero debt long before the deadline of March 2021 kept by Reliance Company. He said, "The company's balance sheet is still very strong, which will help in the growth of its hyper-growth engines - Jio, Retail and O2C."