Reliance Jio Infocomm, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, on Friday announced that it has received a unified licence for all 22 service areas across the country and has become the first telecom operator to get a pan-India licence.
The licence will allow Reliance Jio to offer all telecom services, including voice telephony.
With the grant of unified licence, Reliance Jio has managed to migrate, its existing ISP licence along with Broadband Wireless Access spectrum to unified licence with authorisation for all services except satellite phones services.
The subsidiary had signed the unified licence agreement with the Government of India, Ministry of Communications and IT, Department of Telecommunication (Access Service Division), on October 21, after submission of documents and payment of entry fee.