Ahmedabad: Jio, the telecom brand of Reliance Industries Ltd., has completed one year with growth of 523% in its total users since inception on September 5, 2016. Till end of September 2016, Jio had over 14 lakh subscribers in Gujarat, which grew by over six times, to more than 91 lakh subscribers till end of June 2017.

In Gujarat, now there are over 90 lakh users, who enjoys 4G services of Jio. Every Jio user has become broadband user in Gujarat where in overall broadband subscription is estimated to be up to 30% of the total of 7.22 crore mobile subscribers in state.

After its launch on 5th September 2016, Jio went on a customer acquisition spree. It added seven customers every second reaching 100 million customers in just 170 days. This was the fastest adoption of any technology service, anywhere in the world – faster even than Facebook, WhatsApp or Skype. Presently Jio has over 125 million customers

Jio has brought digital empowerment to all through connectivity, data affordability and device affordability. Thanks to Jio, country got One India simplified tariff plans with truly free voice and the lowest data rates in the world.

Presently, Jio’s network today covers over 75% of India’s population. In next 12 months Jio services will cover 99% of India’s population. It took 25 years for rest of the telecom players to build their 2G network; Jio will have created a larger 4G network in just three years.

The start-up telecom company, Jio has helped India move up from its lowly position globally to a leading position in mobile broadband usage. Before Jio, India was 155th in the world in mobile broadband penetration. Now India is number 1 in mobile data consumption and well on its way to becoming number 1 in mobile broadband penetration, in the coming months.

Within six months of Jio’s launch the mobile data consumption in India went up from 20 crore GB per month to 120 crore GB per month. Now Jio customers are alone consuming 125 crore GB of data per month. Jio is already carrying five times more data than all other telecom players put together.

Jio has consistently been the top speed telecom data network in India for last five months according to TRAI. For June 2017, Jio provided an average 18.8 Mbps speed to its customers – 50% higher than the nearest rival.

 

 

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