New Delhi: Reliance Jio on Wednesday started a beta trial of the 5G service in four cities, offering select customers unlimited data with up to 1 Gbps speed.
Earlier, Reliance Jio was planning to go live with 5G on Diwali.
The Jio beta trial of 5G started in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Varanasi for Jio users on invitation and extended to other cities progressively.
The company said in its statement: “Users will continue to avail (themselves) of this Beta trial until the network coverage of the city is substantially complete to provide best coverage and user experience to every customer,”
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The few select customers will be automatically upgraded to 5G service without their having to change their SIM cards or handsets.
The company further said in a Press statement: “Jio is also working with all handset brands to enable their 5G handsets to work seamlessly with Jio True 5G service so that customers have the most comprehensive range of 5G devices to choose from.”
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani had said at the company’s annual meeting in August that Jio would launch 5G across multiple key cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata by Diwali.
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Ambani added further, “Subsequently we plan to increase the Jio 5G footprint month after month. By December 2023 we will deliver Jio 5G to every town, taluka, and tehsil of our country.”
Jio is investing Rs 2 trillion in its 5G network, launching an affordable smartphones in partnership with Google, and also introducing solutions using wireless broadband such as cloud-based personal computers to power its digital business.
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