Mukesh Ambani's 5 major announcements on Reliance Jio

New Delhi: Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani made some major announcements on Thursday while addressing employees and stakeholders on Reliance Jio. He announced free voice, data and video for new and existing users under the Jio Happy New Year offer. Highlights below: 

• Mukesh Ambani backs demonetisation of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. (READ MORE)

 

• Reliance Jio extends free voice and data for its 52 million existing users till March 31, says MukeshAmbani. Existing customers to auto-migrate to Happy New Year offer.

 

• New Reliance Jio users from Dec 4 will get data, voice, video free till March 31: Mukesh Ambani. He calls it the new 'Jio Happy New Year' offer.

 

• 900 crore voice calls of Jio customers were blocked to 3 largest incumbent operators displaying an anti-competitive behaviour: Mukesh Ambani

 

• RelianceJio has crossed 50 mn customers in less than 90 days of launch: Mukesh Ambani.

 

• Ambani said that on an average a Jio customer was "using 25 times more data than the average Indian broadband user."

 

• Reliance Jio has grown faster than Facebook, Whatsapp in first 3 months, become fastest growing technology firm: Mukesh Ambani.

  Escalating the fight, Reliance Jio Infocomm on Monday had filed a complaint against some telecom operators with fair trade regulator CCI alleging violation of competition norms. Newcomer Reliance Jio, part of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group, has been crossing swords with incumbent operators including Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular over call connectivity issue. Reliance Jio, which commercially launched its services on September 5 and offers free voice call, had accused that incumbent players such as Airtel, Vodafone and Idea of not providing enough connectivity for completing calls even as the allegation has been vehemently denied by them. In October, telecom regulator Trai had recommended a total penalty of Rs 3,050 crore on Airtel, Vodafone and Idea for allegedly denying interconnectivity to Reliance Jio. (With additional information from PTI)