Reliance Jio is rolling out its JioFiber Preview offer in six cities including Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Surat and Vadodara. Reliance Jio’s twitter handle, @JioCare confirmed this news while replying to a user’s query.
Jio’s Twitter handle further states that the company is in the process to roll out the service in other cities as well. For the unintended, JioFiber is the upcoming Broadband services from Reliance Jio. After disrupting the telecom industry with free data and voice calls, the company is all set to enter the broadband space with JioFiber.
According to multiple reports, the company will offer 100GB of free data at 100Mbps speed for 90 days and all you have to do is to pay a refundable amount of approx. Rs 4,500 under the Preview offer. Once the data is finished, the speed will reduce to 1mbps for unlimited data. So far, the company has not revealed much about its broadband or its Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service, but it is reported to be launch by June this year and will one of the most affordable broadband services in India.
Sources familiar with the development have earlier told The Mobile Indian that “Jio is currently testing the Fibre to Home network and DTH services and will make an official announcement related to its commercial launch pretty soon.”
To recall, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Ltd, said during the annual general meeting that it is committed to launching FTTH (fibre to the home) service, which would be capable of delivering a broadband speed up to 1Gbps.
The company introduced this service on January 13, 2017, but only in Mumbai and was offered as a beta service. To give you an idea, Reliance Jio Giga fibre broadband plan will offer you 50 Mbps speed for up to 2000GB of data at Rs 1500 per month. This is one of the plans from the upcoming broadband services from Reliance Jio.