During the 41st AGM meet, Reliance Industries announced a list of offers for Indian customers who are operating its telecom arm Reliance Jio and are active subscribers. Among many offers was also launch of Jio Gigafiber. RIL’s telecom arm Reliance Jio has been known to disrupt the telecom sector with its offers and cheap recharge packs which have hampered other telcos earnings for quite some time now. Mukesh Ambani celebrated 41st AGM meeting of Reliance Industries by referring it to Golden Decade. The highlight of the latest meeting was definitely RIL’s nearly two years old telecom arm Reliance Jio.

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Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director at RIL said, "Optical Fiber based fixed-line broadband is the future.Fixed-line broadband offers HUNDREDS OF MEGABITS, even GIGABITS per second of data speeds. Jio is determined to move India to among the top 5 in fixed-line broadband, too."

Ambani added,"We will now extend this fiber connectivity to homes, merchants, small and medium enterprises and large enterprises simultaneously across 1,100 cities to offer the most advanced fiber-based broadband connectivity solutions."

This fiber based broadband service has been called as JIO GIGAFIBER by RIL. 

JioGigaFiber creates magical experiences that are going to be available to every Indian consumer, according to RIL. 

Currently, RIL is running beta trials for Jio Gigafiber in tens of thousands of homes. 

However, starting from August 15th, a customer can start registering interest for JioGigaFiber through both MyJio and Jio.com. This would be second time Ambani has introduced a new offer under Reliance Jio during India’s Independence Day. 

Ambani said, "We will prioritize our JioGigaFiber rollout to those localities from where we receive the highest number of registrations."

JIOGIGAFIBER will be the largest greenfield fixed-line broadband rollout anywhere in the world, with rollout happening in 1,100 cities of India simultaneously. 

"Make sure you register your interest, and more importantly make sure that your neighbors register so that your locality will be among the first to get JIOGIGAFIBER," says Ambani. 

JioGigaFiber will bring the entire marketplace to large screens powered by high speed broadband at home

As on March 2018, Reliance Jio recorded 215 million customers within 22 months of start is a record that no technology company has been able to achieve anywhere in the world. Data usage has grown from 125 crore GBs per month to more than 240 crore GBs per month.

Voice usage on the network has grown from 250 crore minutes per day to more than 530 crore minutes per. The amount of video consumption has grown from 165 crore hours per month to more than 340 crore hours per month. 

So far, 25 million Indians have availed this scheme and become JioPhone users.