Reliance JIO Strategic Partnership and Agreements

Reliance Jio and Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM) had signed an

agreement for changing spectrum allotment in 800 MHz band in 9 Circles
from R Com to RJIL and sharing the spectrum in 800 Mhz band across 17
Circles.
Access was enhanced to spectrum footprint in the 800 MHz band which
would complement RJio LTE services rollout and provide superior network
coverage and service quality. RJio would have access to R Coms multiple
fiber pairs which was spreaded over 1.2 lakh km across the country for
providing backend support to roll out much awaited 4G services.
R Com in return would have access to optical fiber infrastructure proposed to
be built by RJio in near future. RJio had to pay approx Rs1,200 crores to RCom
as one-time indefeasible right to use fees for sharing the fibre optic network.
Bharti Airtel signed an agreement with Reliance JIO on 23April,2013 under
which it had indefeasible Right to Use (IRU) and Bharti would provide JIO to
use its data capacity on i2i submarine cable across pan India and Asia. I2I is
owned by Bharti and connects India to Singapore.
It consists of state of the art eight fiber pairs using DWDM (Dense
Wavelength Division Multiplexing) which is capable of supporting multiple
terabits of capacity per fiber pair. RJio will utilize a fiber pair on i2i. The highspeed link would help RJio in extending its network coverage across Asia
Pacific region.
It enabled Reliance Jio to connect to the world's known major business hubs
and ISPs and help the operators in meeting bandwidth demand hence
provide ultra-fast data experience to its customers. Bharti Airtel cable
network consisted of eight fiber cable pairs and RJio would be utilizing one
dedicated pair capable of holding multiple terabits of capacity.
Reliance had been assigned the 10,000 mobile numbers it needed to test its
4G services on a non-chargeable basis, apart from this it had also been
assigned 4,000 numbers in Delhi and Mumbai, where it planned launching its
services first. Bharti Airtel global network of 225,000 kms and covered 50
countries and 5 continents. It included ownership of i2i submarine cable
system which connected Chennai to Singapore, consortium of SMW4
submarine cable system which connected Chennai and Mumbai to Singapore
and Europe as well as new cable system investments like Asia America
Gateway (AAG), India Middle East & Western Europe (IMEWE), Unity.
It also had terrestrial express connectivities across countries like Nepal,
Pakistan, Bhutan and China. RJio planned to invest INR 500 billion in building
LTE network across India and partnered with many players for developing a
favourable ecosystem for its product offerings. Reliance was also preparing
for launch of the services by giving the equipment deal to Samsung for

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It hired SAP AG (NYSE/Frankfurt: SAP) for billing solutions. Besides, it also
included Ericsson on board as their preferred Wi-Fi partner. Reliance Jio also
partnered with SPIRIT DSP to offer voice and video calls over its LTE network
across the country. Reliance Jio Plans The launch of Reliance Jio signaled an
important shift from scrounging for data and data scarcity to a potential era
of data abundance.
The obvious sign and indicator of this is Jios free voice call, cheap data
packages (4GB of 4G data for Rs. 499), the elimination of roaming charges
and its aftereffect on competition. Moreover, Jio has different categories for
Wi-Fi (Jio net Hotspot) which it allots to each of its 4G voice and data users.
For example, in the M (medium) offer of Rs 499, an user would get free
voice, 4GB data plus 8 GB extra data if connected to specified public Wi-Fi
hotspot one which Reliance planned to set up across the country