Reliance Jio teams up with eight global telecom companies

Reliance Jio has Infocomm has announced collaboration with eight communications services providers across the world. The move comes from the company with an aim to bring better products and services to customers everywhere.



Operator partners of the alliance include BT, Deutsche Telekom, Millicom, MTS, Orange, Rogers, TeliaSonera and TIM. The alliance could reach a potential customer base of 1 billion in more than 80 countries through these nine operators, Reliance Jio said in a statement. At the time of launch, these nine operators have already tied-up with 30 innovative partner businesses including Airbnb, Celltick, Disconnect, Idoomoo, Magisto, Mojio and Spotify.
Rainer Deutschmann, chief product & innovation officer of Reliance Jio, said in the statement

Jio is set to enable each Indian to live a digital life. To this end, we have built the globally largest green-field 4G and fiber network, as well as a suite of digital services that enable entertainment, cloud, payment, and much more. We invite the best partners to work with us to co-create a Digital India.

Jio has installed 90,000 eco-friendly cell towers that have a near-zero footprint, laid 250,000 route km of fiber optic cable country-wide, and its retail reach is spread over 1.02 lakh villages, 18,000 cities across all the 29 states of the country, it said. The alliance will focus on exchanging best practices on how to bring partner propositions to the market, on joint efforts in partner scouting and will also exchange knowledge about upcoming trends and services amongst the group, the statement said. Reliance Jio is expected to launch its 4G technology based high-speed wireless data services across the country in the first quarter of the next fiscal. The company already launched the 4G LTE services for its employees in December last month.