industry wireless telecommunications founded 2007 2007 headquarters navi mumbai maharashtra india key people sanjay mashruwalla managing director jyotindra thacker head of it akash ambani chief of strategy 1 products mobile telephony wireless broadband revenue 13 million 2015 2 5.8 million 2014 owner mukesh ambani parent reliance industries subsidiaries lyf website www.jio.com reliance jio infocomm limited doing business as jio is a lte mobile network operator in india . it is a wholly owned subsidiary of reliance industries headquartered in mumbai that provides wireless 4g lte services without 2g 3g based services and is the only 100 % volte operator in the country with coverage across all 22 telecom circles in india . 3 4 the services were first beta launched to jio s partners and employees on 27 december 2015 on the eve of 83rd birth anniversary of late dhirubhai ambani founder of reliance industries 5 6 and later services were commercially launched on 5 september 2016 . contents 1 products and services 1.1 4g broadband 1.2 lyf smartphones 1.3 jionet wifi 1.4 jio apps 2 network 2.1 radio frequency summary 2.2 partnerships 3 branding and marketing 4 history 4.1 beta launch 4.2 commercial launch 5 controversies 5.1 issue with incumbents 5.2 issues with speed after commercial launch . 6 see also 7 references 8 external links 9 further reading products and services edit the official slogan of jio 4g broadband edit the company will launch its 4g broadband services throughout india in the first quarter of 2016 2017 financial year . 7 it was slated to release in december 2015 after some reports said that the company was waiting to receive final permits from the government . 8 mukesh ambani owner of reliance industries limited ril whose reliance jio is the telecom subsidiary had unveiled details of jio s fourth generation 4g services on 12 june 2015 at ril s 41st annual general meeting . it will offer data and voice services with peripheral services like instant messaging live tv movies on demand news streaming music and a digital payments platform . 9 the company has a network of more than 250 000 km of fiber optic cables in the country over which it will be partnering with local cable operators to get broader connectivity for its broadband services . 10 with its multi service operator mso licence jio will also serve as a tv channel distributor and will offer television on demand on its network . lyf smartphones edit main article lyf an image of lyf water 2 phone with ips display . 11 in june 2015 jio tied up with domestic handset maker intex to supply 4g handsets enabled with voice over lte volte feature . through this it plans to offer 4g voice calling besides rolling out high speed internet services using a fiber network 12 in addition to the 4g wireless network . 13 however in october 2015 jio announced that it would be launching its own mobile handset brand named lyf . 14 15 16 on 25 january 2016 the company launched its lyf smartphone series starting with water 1 through its chain of electronic retail outlets reliance retail . 17 three more handset models have been released so far namely water 2 18 earth 1 19 and flame 1 . 20 21 jionet wifi edit prior to its pan india launch of 4g data and telephony services jio has started providing free wi fi hotspot services in cities throughout india including surat ahmedabad in gujarat and visakhapatnam in andhra pradesh 22 indore jabalpur dewas and ujjain 23 in madhya pradesh select locations of mumbai in maharashtra 24 kolkata in west bengal 25 lucknow in uttar pradesh 26 bhubaneswar in odisha 27 mussoorie in uttarakhand 28 collectorate s office in meerut 29 and at mg road in vijayawada 30 among others . in march 2016 jio started providing free wi fi internet to spectators at six cricket stadiums hosting the 2016 icc world twenty20 matches . jionet was made available in wankhede stadium mumbai punjab cricket association is bindra stadium mohali himachal pradesh cricket association stadium dharamshala chinnaswamy stadium bengaluru feroz shah kotla delhi and eden gardens kolkata in india . 31 jio apps edit jio sim card pouch as distributed by reliance jio infocomm in may 2016 jio launched a bundle of multimedia apps on google play as part of its upcoming 4g services . while the apps are available to download for everyone a user will require a jio sim card to use them . additionally most of the apps are in beta phase . 32 33 following is a list of the apps 34 myjio manage jio account and digital services associated with it 35 jiotv a live tv channel service 36 jiocinema an online hd video library 37 jiochat messenger an instant messaging app 38 jiomusic a music player 39 jio4gvoice earlier jiojoin a volte phone simulator 40 jiomags e reader for magazines 41 jioxpressnews a news and magazine aggregator jiosecurity security app 42 jiodrive cloud based backup tool 43 jiomoney wallet an online payments wallet app 44 network edit radio frequency summary edit jio owns spectrum in 800 mhz and 1 800 mhz bands in 10 and 6 circles respectively of the total 22 circles in the country and also owns pan india licensed 2 300 mhz spectrum . the spectrum is valid till 2035 . 45 telecom circle fdd lte 1800mhz band 3 fdd lte 850mhz band 5 tdd lte 2300mhz band 40 andhra pradesh & telangana assam bihar & jharkhand delhi uttar pradesh east gujarat haryana himachal pradesh jammu and kashmir karnataka kerala kolkata madhya pradesh & chhattisgarh maharashtra & goa mumbai north east odisha punjab rajasthan tamil nadu west bengal uttar pradesh west partnerships edit ahead of its digital services launch mukesh ambani led reliance jio entered into a spectrum sharing deal with younger brother anil ambani backed reliance communications . the sharing deal is for 800 mhz band across seven circles other than the 10 circles for which jio already owns . 46 in september 2016 jio signed a pact with bsnl for intra circle roaming which would enable users of the operators to use each other s 4g and 3g spectrum in national roaming mode . 47 branding and marketing edit jio logo before september 2016 on december 24 2015 bollywood actor shah rukh khan was appointed as jio s brand ambassador . 48 49 50 history edit jio s headquarters in rcp navi mumbai in june 2010 reliance industries ril bought a 96 % stake in infotel broadband services limited ibsl for 4 800cr . although unlisted ibsl was the only firm to win broadband spectrum in all 22 zones in india in the 4g auction that took place earlier that year . 51 later continuing as ril s telecom subsidiary infotel broadband services limited was renamed as reliance jio infocomm limited rjil in january 2013 . 52 in june 2015 jio announced that it will start its operations all over the country by the end of 2015 . 53 however four months later in october 2015 the company s spokesmen sent out a press release stating that the launch was postponed to the first quarter of the financial year 2016 2017 . 7 later in july a pil filed in the supreme court by an ngo called the centre for public interest litigation through prashant bhushan challenged the grant of pan india licence to jio by the government of india . the pil also alleged that jio was allowed to provide voice telephony along with its 4g data service by paying an additional fees of just 165.8 crore us 25 million which was arbitrary and unreasonable and contributed to a loss of 2 284.2 crore us 340 million to the exchequer . 54 55 the indian department of telecom dot however refuted all of cag s claims . in its statement dot explained that the rules for 3g and bwa spectrum didn t restrict bwa winners from providing voice telephony . as a result the pil was revoked and the accusations were dismissed . 56 beta launch edit the 4g services were launched internally to jio s partners its staff and their families on 27 december 2015 . bollywood actor shah rukh khan who is also the brand ambassador of jio kickstarted the launch event which took place in reliance corporate park in navi mumbai along with celebrities like musician a r rahman actors ranbir kapoor and javed jaffrey and filmmaker rajkumar hirani . 57 the closed event was witnessed by more than 35000 ril employees some of whom were virtually connected from around 1000 locations including dallas in the us . 58 59 60 commercial launch edit the company commercially launched its services on 5 september 2016 . 5 within the first month of commercial operations jio announced that it had acquired 16 million subscribers . this is the fastest ramp up by any mobile network operator anywhere in the world . 61 controversies edit issue with incumbents edit in september 2016 the telecom regulatory authority of india trai summoned jio and the country s existing telecom operators like bharti airtel vodafone and idea cellular to meet and discuss an issue regarding interconnection between the operators . this was a result after jio complained to trai and department of telecom dot about other operators not honoring their commercial agreements to let jio use their network resources . the company further added that the operators are trying to sabotage its entry into the telecom scene . however dot dismissed the request and directed trai to help settle the dispute amicably . moreover the cellular operators association of india coai requested trai to include all the operators in the discussion instead of the three . 62 the incumbent operators had previously approached the country s pmo to reiterate their stance they are in no way obliged or in any position to entertain jio s requests for interconnection points as they do not have either the network or the financial resources to terminate the latter s humongous volumes of potentially asymmetric voice traffic . responding to this mukesh ambani owner of jio said all operators have publicly said last week that they will provide this interconnect and mnp . so we are waiting . these are all great companies . they have their own reputations to protect . i am confident they won t violate the law . commenting about number portability he added the number belongs to the consumer . no operator can cause trouble if they want to change operators . 63 however on 12 september 2016 idea cellular agreed to allow jio to use 196 of its interconnection points . 64 issues with speed after commercial launch . edit in october 2016 ookla a reliable speed testing source revealed that jio s speed in several regions is encountering speed falling drastically . ookla reports that the jio s internet speed decreased 23 % month over month from 11.31 mbps to 8.77 mbps continuing a downward trend for 2016 . 65 this report came when jio already had 15 millions customers in short time . 66 see also edit reliance industries limited reliance digital reliance retail telecommunications statistics in india lyf references edit mukesh ambani s son akash ambani joins reliance industries ; begins at telecom arm reliance jio the economic times reliance jio infocomm limited consolidated financial statements 2014 2015 pdf reliance jio infocomm limited cellular operators association of india reliance jio infocomm plans to launch pan india lte rcr wireless news a b jio opens mobile number portability urges incumbent telcos to fulfil regulatory obligations . india today . 2016 09 03 . retrieved 2016 09 03 . reliance jio infocomm launches 4g services for employees the economic times december 27 2015 retrieved december 29 2015 a b reliance jio likely to delay its december pan india launch live mint reliance jio to launch commercial operations by december ; to