Reliance Jio unveiled India’s first satellite-based giga-fibre service, JioSpaceFiber, at the India Mobile Congress held in New Delhi on Friday. This groundbreaking service is designed to provide high-speed broadband connectivity to previously hard-to-reach regions throughout India.
Reliance Jio’s chairman, Akash Ambani, stated: “Jio has enabled millions of homes and businesses in India to experience broadband internet for the first time. With JioSpaceFiber, we expand our reach to cover the millions yet to be connected.”
The new service is poised to empower individuals and businesses across India, granting them access to essential online government services, education, healthcare, and entertainment with gigabit internet speeds. Ambani demonstrated the new satellite broadband at the Congress in the presence of Modi.
As one of India’s leading broadband service providers, Jio already serves over 450 million consumers with both fixed-line and wireless options. With JioSpaceFiber, the company aims to foster digital inclusivity by further extending its suite of broadband services, which already includes JioFiber and JioAirFiber.
Jio’s offerings ensure that individuals and businesses gain unparalleled access to reliable, low-latency, high-speed internet and entertainment services, regardless of their geographic location. The satellite network underpinning JioSpaceFiber will expand mobile backhaul capacity, thereby enhancing the reach and scalability of Jio True5G, even in the most remote areas of India.
Jio has partnered with SES, granting it access to the world’s latest medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite technology. SES’s O3b and new O3b mPOWER satellites enable Jio to provide scalable and affordable broadband connectivity across India. This unique satellite technology allows Jio to offer truly unique gigabit, fibre-like services from space.
To demonstrate its capabilities and extensive reach, JioSpaceFiber has already connected four of the most remote locations in India: Gir in Gujarat, Korba in Chhattisgarh, Nabarangpur in Odisha, and ONGC-Jorhat in Assam. This achievement highlights JioSpaceFiber’s potential to bring high-speed broadband services to underserved areas in the country.
John-Paul Hemingway, chief strategy officer at SES, noted, “Together with Jio, we are honoured to support the government of India’s Digital India initiative with a unique solution that aims at delivering multiple gigabits per second of throughput to any location in India.”
SES’s fibre-like services from space are already deployed in parts of India and are poised to drive digital transformation even in the country’s most rural areas.
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