Jio, the incumbent Indian MNO, was in news recently for having rolled out 1 million 5G cells across India. An RCR Wireless article nicely summarised their announcement from the earning statement as follows:
Reliance Jio Infocomm has already deployed over 1 million 5G cells across India, the telco said in its earning statement.
Jio’s 5G network is currently providing coverage in nearly 8,000 towns and cities across India.
Jio also highlighted that it has contributed to 85% of the overall 5G capacity in the country. This has been powered by a 100% in-house 5G stack, designed, developed and manufactured in India, the telco added.
Reliance Jio Infocomm has been rapidly expanding its 5G network using Standalone (SA) architecture since October 2022. Reliance Jio had previously secured a mix of wireless spectrum for 5G across the 700 MHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands. Jio is the only Indian operator with the 700 MHz low-band spectrum.
Earlier this month, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited demonstrated what it claims to be India’s first satellite-based giga-fiber service, dubbed JioSpaceFiber, at India Mobile Congress 2023.
The telco said the new offering aims to provide high-speed broadband services to hard-to-reach geographies across the country.
Jio has rolled out 1 million 5G cells across India, extending coverage to 8,000 towns. They've established 150,000 5G sites, bringing the benefits of 5G to 70 million customers so far. #Jio #5G 📡🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/N850Si7Dig
— Telecom TALK (@TelecomTalk) October 27, 2023
At the recent Brooklyn 6G Summit, Shyam Mardikar gave a keynote on how Jio 5G is enabling India to go Digital. His bio states: "Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar is responsible for Reliance Jio’s mobile network and leads the network strategy, design, and transformation towards making Jio’s mobile network fully converged, programable and future ready. Over past one year, he has successfully led world’s fastest 5G network creation with nearly 1 Mn 5G cells live."
His talk is embedded below:
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