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Reliance Jio to offer 1GBps broadband service to homes

MUMBAI: While Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani was outlining Jio’s wireless 4G LTE network plans and tariffs at its 39th AGM, he also announced that Reliance Jio was starting in select cities a fibre to the home (FTTH) wired line network with the possibility of offering bandwidths upto 1 GBps to residential users.

“This initiative will push the power of data even further,” he said. “We will progressively extend this to the top 100 cities.”

The wired line broadband network is to be extended to even enterprises which would allow companies to have multi- gigabyte connectivity. “These will be on par with what is available in the developed world for all our enterprise customers,” Ambani said.

The company was also in the process of tying up with some of the world’s iconic digital and internet players in order to bring to Indian customers the “full power and range of their offerings.”

For the past few months, a select bunch of high networth individuals in the south of Mumbai have already been experiencing the FTTH service.

Industry observers expect Jio to disrupt pricing in the FTTH segment too, similar to what it is doing in mobile communications.

September 1, 2016
Reliance Jio to offer 1GBps broadband service to homes

MUMBAI: While Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani was outlining Jio’s wireless 4G LTE network plans and tariffs at its 39th AGM, he also announced that Reliance Jio was starting in select cities a fibre to the home (FTTH) wired line network with the possibility of offering bandwidths upto 1 GBps to residential users.

“This initiative will push the power of data even further,” he said. “We will progressively extend this to the top 100 cities.”

The wired line broadband network is to be extended to even enterprises which would allow companies to have multi- gigabyte connectivity. “These will be on par with what is available in the developed world for all our enterprise customers,” Ambani said.

The company was also in the process of tying up with some of the world’s iconic digital and internet players in order to bring to Indian customers the “full power and range of their offerings.”

For the past few months, a select bunch of high networth individuals in the south of Mumbai have already been experiencing the FTTH service.

Industry observers expect Jio to disrupt pricing in the FTTH segment too, similar to what it is doing in mobile communications.

September 1, 2016
Ambani unveils Jio launch, rollout and tariffs

MUMBAI: It promised a lot and it delivered. Reliance Industries Ltd’s 39th annual general meeting saw chairman Mukesh Ambani unveil the roadmap ahead for what is hoped will be the most significant change agent for India’s telecom, broadband business.

Amongst the most significant was the announcement that it will be a voice-free-low data cost provider of 4G LTE services geared for video delivery.

“All over the world operators charge for either data or voice. We have decided to make our voice services free and will never charge for it anytime now or in the future. Jio makes India the highest quality lowest data rates country in the world,” he said.

While other telcos like Airtel, Vodafone, have been offering data plans at Rs 250 per GB, Ambani said Jio’s data plans will be delivered at Rs 50 per GB. “And these will go down the more data you consume,” he informed RIL’s enamoured and enthusiastic shareholders at Mumbai’s Biral Matushree Auditorium this morning. “Your apps and downloads can be happening when you sleep at night at no cost to you.”

He also stated that data will be free on its 4G LTE network at night.

Only 10 plans ranging from Rs 19 to 4999 offering free voice calls and 100 MB to 75 GB a month respectively are on offer. “There are more than 22,000 plans on offer across India from the various telcos. It’s very confusing for the consumer. We wanted to keep it simple – hence just 10 plans,” said Ambani.

Reliance Jio says that it is looking at simplifying billing, sign ups to its services. “We have reengineered the sign up process to e-KYC and it will be linked to your Aadhar card. The process will take a customer 15 minutes and you will walk away with your active connection,” said Ambani.

He also announced that subscription to Reliance Jio’s apps – valued at Rs 15,000 – was being given away to subscribers free until 31 December 2017 .

Students would also have an offer which will provide them with 25 per cent more data at the same price. Ambani said Jio was in the process of connecting a majority of India’s schools and colleges so that students could have access to broadband wifi in their classrooms. The company was in the process of setting up a million wifi hot spots across the country.

Ambani pointed out that Jio was being officially launched from 5 September 2016 with a welcome offer that all of Jio services will be available to Indians free until 31 December 2016. One of the reasons for this, he expressed, was that the company had been surprised by the way villagers had taken to the internet. And he wanted India’s rural heartlands to experience mobile broaband on 4G LTE for a few months.

September 1, 2016
Ambani unveils Jio launch, rollout and tariffs

MUMBAI: It promised a lot and it delivered. Reliance Industries Ltd’s 39th annual general meeting saw chairman Mukesh Ambani unveil the roadmap ahead for what is hoped will be the most significant change agent for India’s telecom, broadband business.

Amongst the most significant was the announcement that it will be a voice-free-low data cost provider of 4G LTE services geared for video delivery.

“All over the world operators charge for either data or voice. We have decided to make our voice services free and will never charge for it anytime now or in the future. Jio makes India the highest quality lowest data rates country in the world,” he said.

While other telcos like Airtel, Vodafone, have been offering data plans at Rs 250 per GB, Ambani said Jio’s data plans will be delivered at Rs 50 per GB. “And these will go down the more data you consume,” he informed RIL’s enamoured and enthusiastic shareholders at Mumbai’s Biral Matushree Auditorium this morning. “Your apps and downloads can be happening when you sleep at night at no cost to you.”

He also stated that data will be free on its 4G LTE network at night.

Only 10 plans ranging from Rs 19 to 4999 offering free voice calls and 100 MB to 75 GB a month respectively are on offer. “There are more than 22,000 plans on offer across India from the various telcos. It’s very confusing for the consumer. We wanted to keep it simple – hence just 10 plans,” said Ambani.

Reliance Jio says that it is looking at simplifying billing, sign ups to its services. “We have reengineered the sign up process to e-KYC and it will be linked to your Aadhar card. The process will take a customer 15 minutes and you will walk away with your active connection,” said Ambani.

He also announced that subscription to Reliance Jio’s apps – valued at Rs 15,000 – was being given away to subscribers free until 31 December 2017 .

Students would also have an offer which will provide them with 25 per cent more data at the same price. Ambani said Jio was in the process of connecting a majority of India’s schools and colleges so that students could have access to broadband wifi in their classrooms. The company was in the process of setting up a million wifi hot spots across the country.

Ambani pointed out that Jio was being officially launched from 5 September 2016 with a welcome offer that all of Jio services will be available to Indians free until 31 December 2016. One of the reasons for this, he expressed, was that the company had been surprised by the way villagers had taken to the internet. And he wanted India’s rural heartlands to experience mobile broaband on 4G LTE for a few months.

September 1, 2016
GoDaddy is title sponsor of ‘World Hosting Day’ India 2016

MUMBAI: Cloud platform GoDaddy dedicated to small, independent ventures, today announced its title sponsorship for the upcoming WHD.india 2016, the largest independent hosting and cloud services conference in India. The conference will take place at the Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore on Wednesday, September 28, 2016and expects over 500 resellers, web developers, designers, domain investors and cloud services vendors. In addition to being the title sponsor of WHD.india for the fourth year running, GoDaddy will lead conversations on building and enabling a robust ecosystem of web developers, designers and resellers to serve the growing needs of India’s 51 million strong SMB market. At WHD.india 2016, GoDaddy will also announce a selection of new products and services for web professionals.

Rajiv Sodhi, Vice President and Managing Director, GoDaddy, India and Australia, said, “India’s growing ecosystem of Resellers, web designers and developers play a pivotal role in helping the country’s next wave of small businesses to get online and in building an effective digital presence. GoDaddy is committed to helping web professionals and their customers succeed online. As always, we are delighted to be a part of WHD.india 2016 and look forward to sharing insights and gaining invaluable feedback from the web professional community.”

GoDaddy offers a suite of online products for small businesses in India. GoDaddy combines its products with award-winning customer care to help empower small business owners, and entrepreneurs in India, to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. This includes finding the perfect domain name, website creation and hosting, online marketing, and productivity tools.

World Hosting Days is the world’s largest series of events for the hosting and cloud service market. The first event of this series took place in Germany more than 10 years ago. The huge success of the conference’s concept and its reception throughout the industry helped to establish a series of events in all parts of the world.

The annual WHD.global in Germany remains the biggest and most important global gathering with thousands of attendees from 85 countries. A road show through different European technology hubs and events in the United States and Asia complement the WHD family.

The WHD concept gathers leading experts and knowledge from the hosting and cloud industry in order to provide a professional atmosphere for high-value networking, conducting business and learning about the latest solutions and services. Each event consists of three pillars: a conference with keynotes and sessions, a trade fair with exhibitions, and entertaining social events to promote networking. WHD is the perfect combination of information, business opportunities and networking.

September 1, 2016
GoDaddy is title sponsor of ‘World Hosting Day’ India 2016

MUMBAI: Cloud platform GoDaddy dedicated to small, independent ventures, today announced its title sponsorship for the upcoming WHD.india 2016, the largest independent hosting and cloud services conference in India. The conference will take place at the Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore on Wednesday, September 28, 2016and expects over 500 resellers, web developers, designers, domain investors and cloud services vendors. In addition to being the title sponsor of WHD.india for the fourth year running, GoDaddy will lead conversations on building and enabling a robust ecosystem of web developers, designers and resellers to serve the growing needs of India’s 51 million strong SMB market. At WHD.india 2016, GoDaddy will also announce a selection of new products and services for web professionals.

Rajiv Sodhi, Vice President and Managing Director, GoDaddy, India and Australia, said, “India’s growing ecosystem of Resellers, web designers and developers play a pivotal role in helping the country’s next wave of small businesses to get online and in building an effective digital presence. GoDaddy is committed to helping web professionals and their customers succeed online. As always, we are delighted to be a part of WHD.india 2016 and look forward to sharing insights and gaining invaluable feedback from the web professional community.”

GoDaddy offers a suite of online products for small businesses in India. GoDaddy combines its products with award-winning customer care to help empower small business owners, and entrepreneurs in India, to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. This includes finding the perfect domain name, website creation and hosting, online marketing, and productivity tools.

World Hosting Days is the world’s largest series of events for the hosting and cloud service market. The first event of this series took place in Germany more than 10 years ago. The huge success of the conference’s concept and its reception throughout the industry helped to establish a series of events in all parts of the world.

The annual WHD.global in Germany remains the biggest and most important global gathering with thousands of attendees from 85 countries. A road show through different European technology hubs and events in the United States and Asia complement the WHD family.

The WHD concept gathers leading experts and knowledge from the hosting and cloud industry in order to provide a professional atmosphere for high-value networking, conducting business and learning about the latest solutions and services. Each event consists of three pillars: a conference with keynotes and sessions, a trade fair with exhibitions, and entertaining social events to promote networking. WHD is the perfect combination of information, business opportunities and networking.

September 1, 2016
RIL AGM to be streamed live from 11 am onwards 1 Sept

MUMBAI: A lot is expected to be revealed about Reliance Jio progress and rollout plans during the course of Reliance Industries Ltd’s 42 annual general meeting with its shareholders on 1 September.

Punters are betting that its tariffs will be disclosed as well as the plans it has VoLTE, IPTV and broadband.
RIL has reportedly spent over Rs 29,000 crore over Jio and is expected to invest more. And while the profits are not expected to start rolling out during its investment and growth phase, RIL would still like to know what chairman Mukesh Ambani has in store. As Jio is expected to revolutionise the way Indians consume data and engage on their mobiles.

Keeping this in mind, RIL has decided to stream the AGM live on its various online digital channels from 11 am when Mukesh Ambani is slated to begin his speech.

YouTube

o   Flame Of Truth channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/flameoftruth2014)

o   Jio Digital Life channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuXlQvucItKHNH4b0ega0DA)

·        Facebook

o   Reliance Industries Limited (https://www.facebook.com/RelianceIndustriesLimited/)

o   Jio (https://www.facebook.com/Jio/)

·        Twitter

o   @FlameOfTruth (https://twitter.com/flameoftruth)

o   @RelianceJio (https://twitter.com/reliancejio)

·        Jio Chat

·        Jio Play

September 1, 2016
RIL AGM to be streamed live from 11 am onwards 1 Sept

MUMBAI: A lot is expected to be revealed about Reliance Jio progress and rollout plans during the course of Reliance Industries Ltd’s 42 annual general meeting with its shareholders on 1 September.

Punters are betting that its tariffs will be disclosed as well as the plans it has VoLTE, IPTV and broadband.
RIL has reportedly spent over Rs 29,000 crore over Jio and is expected to invest more. And while the profits are not expected to start rolling out during its investment and growth phase, RIL would still like to know what chairman Mukesh Ambani has in store. As Jio is expected to revolutionise the way Indians consume data and engage on their mobiles.

Keeping this in mind, RIL has decided to stream the AGM live on its various online digital channels from 11 am when Mukesh Ambani is slated to begin his speech.

YouTube

o   Flame Of Truth channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/flameoftruth2014)

o   Jio Digital Life channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuXlQvucItKHNH4b0ega0DA)

·        Facebook

o   Reliance Industries Limited (https://www.facebook.com/RelianceIndustriesLimited/)

o   Jio (https://www.facebook.com/Jio/)

·        Twitter

o   @FlameOfTruth (https://twitter.com/flameoftruth)

o   @RelianceJio (https://twitter.com/reliancejio)

·        Jio Chat

·        Jio Play

September 1, 2016
nexGTv bags global digital rights of Odia GEC MBC TV

MUMBAI: nexGTv, India’s largest subscription-led video entertainment app, has acquired the worldwide digital rights to MBC TV, an Odia General Entertainment Channel. The move is a part of nexGTv’s long-term strategic partnership with SelectNext Digital, and underlines its commitment to curate and deliver the best regional entertainment content to its users across the globe.

SelectNext Digital Media is an emerging digital content aggregation and syndication company. It started operations in 2016 and, within a short span of time, has acquired exclusive rights for more than 17k audio songs and 5k videos across various genres. SelectNext Digital has a huge content repository of Indian as well as International content which targets young audiences.

Speaking on the announcement, nexGTv, COO Abhesh Verma said, “nexGTv, today, has firmly established its position as one of the leading players in the Indian OTT video/mobile TV industry. This leadership position has been achieved due to our focus on enabling the most relevant entertainment solutions for our users. We are delighted to add MBC TV to our platform, and are confident that Odia-speaking users around the world will appreciate the greater selection diversity available to them as a result of the addition.”

MBC TV will be made available as a part of the paid packages on nexGTv, and can be viewed seamlessly on its web and mobile platforms. The content can either be accessed through www.nexgtv.com, or through the nexGTv mobile app which is available on both Android and iOS platforms.

August 31, 2016
nexGTv bags global digital rights of Odia GEC MBC TV

MUMBAI: nexGTv, India’s largest subscription-led video entertainment app, has acquired the worldwide digital rights to MBC TV, an Odia General Entertainment Channel. The move is a part of nexGTv’s long-term strategic partnership with SelectNext Digital, and underlines its commitment to curate and deliver the best regional entertainment content to its users across the globe.

SelectNext Digital Media is an emerging digital content aggregation and syndication company. It started operations in 2016 and, within a short span of time, has acquired exclusive rights for more than 17k audio songs and 5k videos across various genres. SelectNext Digital has a huge content repository of Indian as well as International content which targets young audiences.

Speaking on the announcement, nexGTv, COO Abhesh Verma said, “nexGTv, today, has firmly established its position as one of the leading players in the Indian OTT video/mobile TV industry. This leadership position has been achieved due to our focus on enabling the most relevant entertainment solutions for our users. We are delighted to add MBC TV to our platform, and are confident that Odia-speaking users around the world will appreciate the greater selection diversity available to them as a result of the addition.”

MBC TV will be made available as a part of the paid packages on nexGTv, and can be viewed seamlessly on its web and mobile platforms. The content can either be accessed through www.nexgtv.com, or through the nexGTv mobile app which is available on both Android and iOS platforms.

August 31, 2016