Reliance Jio Ties Up With 8 Global Carriers

An official statement said the eight global carriers are British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Millicom, MTS, Orange, Rogers, TeliaSonera and TIM.

"Jio is set to enable each Indian to live a digital life. To this end, we have built the globally largest green-field 4G and fiber network, as well as a suite of digital services that enable entertainment, cloud, payment, and much more.

"We invite the best partners to work with us to co-create a Digital India," said Rainer Deutschmann, chief product and innovation officer of Reliance Jio Infocom.

Industrialist Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm is expected to launch 4G services very soon.

The statement said through these companies, a potential customer base of around one billion in more than 80 countries can be reached.

Jio has installed 90,000 eco-friendly cell towers that have a near-zero footprint, laid 250,000 route km of fiber optic cable country-wide, and its retail reach is spread over 1.02 lakh villages, 18,000 cities across all the 29 states of the country, it said.

"Partnering becomes more and more important. We as operators can provide partners with the best networks and easy distribution to customers. And the partners enable us to provide our customers with the best and most innovative products and services. This is a perfect win-win-situation for all," said Christian von Reventlow, chief product and innovation officer at Deutsche Telekom.

The alliance will focus on exchanging best practices on how to bring partner propositions to the market, on joint efforts in partner scouting and will also exchange knowledge about upcoming trends and services amongst the group, the statement said.

"As of today, the Alliance has established relationships with 30 innovative partner businesses including AirBnB, Celltick, Disconnect, Idoomoo, Magisto, Mojio and Spotify," it said.

The statement said the alliance was an open network of like-minded operators worldwide with complementary geographical footprints.

It was covering all relevant product categories within an operator's business, mobile as well as fixed, business-to-customer as well as business-to-business. It will be expanding to additional operators soon.