Reliance Jio Crosses 50-Million Subscriber In 83 Days

Reliance Jio Crosses 50-Million Subscriber In 83 Days
Vishwa Gujarat 29 Nov.

After launching the Jio service in September, now Reliance jio has crossed the 50 million subscriber mark in less than three months only. According to sources, Jio setting a new record has acquired 1,000 customers per minute (since September 05) and 6 lakh per day.

According to the report,”Jio continues to be the fastest growing company in the world and has crossed 50 million subscribers in record 83 days”. Airtel reached the same milestone of notching 50 million subscribers in 12 years, Vodafone and Idea took 13 years each.

Reliance Jio Infocomm launch its 4G service in market on September 5 and compete with other telecom companies like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, and as per the last update Reliance notched up 16 million users in the first month of its operation.

The subscriber of Jio has reached one fifth that of Bharti Airtel, which had 262.67 million mobile subscribers in October. According to the latest data by cellular association COAI, Vodafone had 201.90 million subscribers and Idea Cellular 180.25 million users.

The reports further says,”Beating industry estimates, the company has signed up an average of 6 lakh subscribers a day, which is a globally unprecedented feat for any customer-facing company including the likes of Whatsapp, Facebook and Skype”.

Jio has become India’s largest digital services operator with highest number of mobile broadband users surpassing telecom major Airtel’s 41 million 3G and 4G customers combined acquired over last six years.

Only on 4G to 4G comparison, Jio’s customer base is now five times that of Airtel around 10 million subscribers 17 times of Idea 3 million subscribers.

At Reliance’s 42nd annual general meeting, Ambani had said his new telecom venture would aim to acquire 100 million customers,”in the shortest possible time and create a new world record”. This would translate into a data usage of 250 crore gigabyte per month.

During the testing phase of 4G service only Reliance Jio has become the world’s second largest telephony market, sparked off a tariff war, and had onboarded 1.5 million users.

It is aggressively competing with players such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone and is offering users data services free till December 31 2016, if they buy Jio connection by December 03 2016.

From January 01 2017 the data services will become chargeable with rates starting at Rs. 19 a day for occasional data users, Rs. 149 a month for low data users and Rs. 4,999 a month for heavy data subscribers. Jio has promised to keep voice and roaming services, free for life.