Reliance Jio Rollout

The gigabit ftth in 'future', is interesting. They are saying it will expand to 90 cities. Hope its not in Dec 2017 and has good coverage. I don't trust jio but at least it will improve competition.

edit: starting from few top cities.
 
A minor doubt, as the service is free till this year's end, so these announced plans will be in play starting next year onwards?
 
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1. Reliance Jio services will be formally launched on 5 September while the commercial launch take till 31 December.

2. Jio will charge Rs.25-50/GB, 5-10 times lower than currently available rates.

3. 4G LTE smartphones will be sold starting from Rs.2,999 and Jio-Fi for Rs.1,999

4. Tariff plans starting from Rs.19 for the occasional data user, to a monthly Rs.149 plan for the light data user.

5. Jio voice calls, across India, will not be charged under any plan.

6. Instant eKYC digital activations using Aadhaar at home as well as in the stores.

7. Jio plans apps around education, rural, health and agriculture.

8. All services will be free for users from 5 September to 31 December.
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Source: http://www.livemint.com/Companies/x...iance-Jio-launch-Key-takeaways-for-users.html
 
Will Jio help govt surveillance? They are happily doing Deep Packet Inspection: http://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio-idINKCN11611V

"For Reliance... data is the new oil, and intelligent data is the new petrol," Ambani said in March, explaining his drive to move closer to India's consumers.

Reliance has said little publicly about Jio, and even less about the potential for wide-scale data mining in a country where consumers have not, to date, made a big deal about online privacy. But top executives are clear on the opportunity.

"It's called Deep Packet Inspection, and what you can do with the analytics of that is mind-boggling," said a senior Reliance executive, referring to a practice that digs into 'packets' of data created by computers for efficiency, mining them for information.
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My 2 cents on the tariffs (disclaimer - Anyone who have read my earlier posts know I dint have a great experience with Jio preview offer so take this as you may):

One, I can't figure out what this means - "Jio will have a base rate which is 1/10th of market rates. 5 paise per MB, or Rs 50 per GB". Is that post usage, something like 10p per 10kb normal telecos have and Jio had 3p per 10kb before launch? This is important because purely in terms of data, even the costliest of the plan doesn't have 50 per GB. All are approximately 65-66 per GB. It might be calculation of data + voice (expected usage. as everything on Jio is data) but still need to be clarified.

Secondly, I think Jio is going to over promise and under deliver. They don't seem to be ramping up capacity. Check broadbandforum.co for people going from 50 in May to 10mbps now. The quality seem to be stable in towns where the capacity has not yet be stressed. Based on my singular experience, they don't seem to be adding towers quickly too. The tower near my house has yet to come up even after 5 months of promises. What all this means is - free night data is great but then it remains to be seen if the speeds are good for all the downloaders out there. We need to judge this after Jan 2017 when people have to start paying money for data.

As for free voice, its awesome but then it has come at the price of data. I think many were looking at Jio for their data fix. 150 for 2-3GB data + say extra for voice topup would have been a better option but now its 0.3 GB for data which is a letdown.[DOUBLEPOST=1472716048][/DOUBLEPOST]
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Will Jio help govt surveillance? They are happily doing Deep Packet Inspection: http://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio-idINKCN11611V
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What do you expect in a country where people strengthened Aadhar and happily gave away biometric data. I think it will be better to have a separate topic for this.
 
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Will Jio help govt surveillance? They are happily doing Deep Packet Inspection: http://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio-idINKCN11611V
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I think high usage, if logs are kept for a long time, can be used to force you to admit to 'illegal' usages if Gov/jio wants to 'frame' you someday. I guess with smaller ISPs you have lesser chance of that happening.

Jio is capping all over the place(yt on mobile, dm, torrents) and night speeds will probably get low.

Also any more info about their ftth than it will come in 'future' and will expand to 90 cities after mainn.
 
Droooll..... Good bye Airtel. You wont be missed.

Wow the plans are amazing.[DOUBLEPOST=1472719190][/DOUBLEPOST]What about people who already have a Jio sim will that also have the offer extended till 31st December or will that end in the correct 3 months cycle?
 
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Internet speeds are still atleast 4mbps, though not what they promised in the starting. And today's calls are pathetic, quality is good but takes atleast 5 tries to reach a airtel/voda/idea network or even jio sometimes.
 


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