Reliance Jio sets world record with 16 million subscribers in its first month of operations
Q. Reliance Jio has created a world record by passing how many million subscriber’s mark in Sept 2016?- Published on 10 Oct 16a. 14
b. 15
c. 16
d. 16.5
ANSWER: 16
Reliance Jio has introduced Aadhaar based paperless Reliance Jio SIM activation across 3,100 cities and towns. This ensures that the customer completes SIM activation in minutes with only the Aadhaar number
- The company has created a world record by crossing the 16 million subscriber mark in the first month of operations in Sept 2016
- Jio is a fresh entrant in the 4G market and has achieved faster growth than any other telecom operator or startup across the globe including the likes of Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp.
- Reliance Jio Infocomm is a subsidiary of RIL
- It launched commercial services on September 5, 2016
- At RIL’s 42nd AGM, Mukesh Ambani the RIL chief said that the new telecom venture would aim to acquire 100m customers in the shortest time possible and create a fresh world record
- This would mean data usage of 250 crore GB per month
- Jio introduced Aadhaar based paperless Jio SIM activation and had an entry into the world’s second largest telephony market which sparked off a tariff war
- It has onboard 1.5 million users on its 4G network during the test phase
- The company is competing head-on with players like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone by giving users free data
- Vodafone currently has over 200 million subscribers and Idea close to 177 million subscribers in August
- The subscriber count of Aircel was 89.7 million while Telenor was pegged at 53.2 m
- State owned MTNL had 3.6m users while Bharti Airtel broadband reached 35 million. Vodafone and Idea have 25 million broadband users together.
