Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries at the company’s 40th annual AGM announced that Reliance Jio has crossed 125 million customers in 10 months of launch, adding 7 customers every second on average. He also said the company has over 100 million paid customers, since March, which is the biggest free to paid user migration, and most have recharged for Rs. 309 or more. Earlier this year the company had crossed 100 million customers in 170 days of launch.
He said that Jio users consistently make more than 250 crore minutes of voice and video calls every single day and Jio customers alone are consuming over 125 crore GB of data a month, including 165 crore hours video every month, overtaking the US and China in mobile data usage.
In the next 12 months, Jio services will cover 99% of the country’s population.
“It took 25 years for our competitors to build 2G network. Jio will have created a larger 4G network in just 3 years,” said Mukesh Ambani. “Jio’s business and societal value will grow immensely over the next decade. Jio will become India’s largest provider of data service, products and application platforms,” he added.
To support the enhanced coverage, Jio will be expanding its physical distribution network across India. It will soon have over 10,000 Jio offices, across every city and tehsil town of India. These offices will service its sales channel partners and over ten lakh physical retail outlets that sell Jio services. In addition it will integrate with all major e-commerce platforms.