The country’s largest telecom company Reliance Jio will expand 5G telephony services offering ultra high-speed internet connectivity to every part of the country by December 2023, its chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Saturday. Jio entered the telecom sector in September 2016, offering free voice calls and dirt-cheap data, forcing the competition to either match or fold up/consolidate.
Ambani has now promised affordable 5G services. “Today, I want to reiterate Jio’s commitment to bring 5G to every city, every taluka and every tehsil of our country by December 2023,” he said at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) conference here.
Ambani announced the rollout of 5G services for the four metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata by Diwali at its flagship Reliance Industries’ annual shareholder meeting in August.
Most of Jio’s 5G is developed in India, and hence bears the stamp of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, he said, adding that 5G and 5G-enabled digital solutions would make affordable and high-quality education and skill development within the reach of ordinary Indians. could.
It can provide high quality healthcare in rural and remote areas by transforming existing hospitals into smart hospitals without any additional investment, digitally providing services of the best doctors anywhere in India as well as speed up diagnosis. And can improve accuracy and enable real. Timely clinical decision making.
He said that 5G can bridge the gap between urban and rural India by accelerating the digitization and intelligent data management of agriculture, services, trade, industry, informal sector, transport and energy infrastructure.
“By bringing AI to every sphere, 5G can help India emerge as the intelligence capital of the world. This will help India become a leading exporter of high-value digital solutions and services,” he added. Combining all of these would result in a huge burst of entrepreneurship. in the country, which in turn will attract even bigger investments and create millions of new jobs.
Ambani said that by harnessing the combined power of demography and digital technologies, India can become the world’s leading digital society, making India a $40 trillion (approximately Rs. 3,265 lakh crore) economy by 2047, a $3 trillion (approximately Rs. 245 lakh crore) economy. lakh crore) now and the per capita income has increased rapidly from $20,000 (approximately Rs 16,33,000) to $2,000 (approximately Rs 1,63,000).
“It would not be an exaggeration to say that 5G is like a digital Kamdhenu, the heavenly cow that gives us whatever we want,” he said.
He said that with 5G, India will take a long and fast step towards ‘Sab Ka Digital Saath and Sab Ka Digital Vikas’. “India may have started a little late, but we will finish first by introducing 5G services that are of higher quality and more affordable than anywhere else in the world,” Ambani said. 5G is much more than just next generation connectivity technology. , offers fundamental technology that unlocks the full potential of other transformational technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, robotics, blockchain and the metaverse.
