Reliance Jio launches 4G telecom service using LTE

Reliance Jio has launched the 4G telecom service using LTE (Long Term Evolution) Technology. The service was launched by the company’s Chairman Mukesh Ambani on the 83rd birth anniversary of Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of the Reliance Industries Limited in Navy Mumbai, Maharashtra. This initial phase of 4G service was launched for limited to 85000 employees and their families of the company. However the commercial services to begin by April 2016 throughout country.
Features:

The Jio 4G Service has 3 pronged features focusing on broadband networks, affordable smart phones and the availability of rich content & applications. It seeks to provide unique combination of high speed data up to 1 gigabyte(GB) per second (Gbps), telecom, media, digital commerce or payment services.

India’s 4G profile

With this launch Reliance Jio became 4th telecom service provider in India to launch 4G service. Sunil Bharti Mittal led Airtel was the 1st telecom service provider in the country to launch 4G service using LTE Technology in Kolkata in 2012. It was followed by Aircel in July 2014 (in 4 circles Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar & Odisha) and Vodafone India on 8th December 2015 in Kochi, Kerala.
About 4G:

• 4G LTE is wireless communications standard developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).


• Standards: 4G LTE is one of several competing 4G standards along with WiMax (IEEE 802.16) and Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB). Presently 2 standards are commercially used world-wide viz. LTE and Mobile WiMax standard.


• WiMax standard was 1st commercially in South Korea in 2007 and LTE standard was 1st used in Norway and Sweden in 2009.


• Speed:
  
  Designed to provide up to 10x speeds of 3G networks for mobile devices such as tablets, smartphones, netbooks and wireless hotspots etc. It can provide internet speed of at least 100 Mbit per second (Mbps) to 1 Gbps.


• Services: 4G technologies are designed to provide IP (Internet Protocol) based voice, data & multimedia streaming at high speed.

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