05 October 2023

Reliance Jio has introduced a fixed wireless access (FWA) service in eight cities in India, stating that the technology using its 5G network overcomes last-mile connectivity constraints, with the potential to connect every home and small business.

“We are expanding our addressable market to rapidly cover every home in our country with similar quality of service,” said Reliance Jio chairman Akash Ambani.

The company’s Fibre To The Home (FTTH) service JioFiber already serves more than 10 million customers, but there are still millions of homes and small businesses to be connected at a rapid pace.

The new AirFiber service delivers an integrated service covering high-speed broadband, home entertainment and smart home services. The first cities to receive the service include Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Kolkata.

The entry-level plan is INR599 per month, with a maximum speed of 30Mbps, while the top-tier package is INR3,999 a month, offering a speed of 1Gbps. Both include access to 550 digital TV channels and 14 OTT apps, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Jio, the largest mobile player in the country by connections, said its optical-fibre infrastructure spans more than 1.5 million kilometres, with its FTTH service passing some 200 million premises nationwide.