Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, the digital services initiative of India’s largest private sector company Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), will launch its fourth generation (4G) mobile services in a phased manner this year.

“The year 2015 will see the phased launch of Reliance Jio across India,” >RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani told the company’s shareholders at its 40th annual general meeting here in Mumbai.

Limited field trials are already underway, he said, adding that expanded field trials will commence in August across multiple cities.

“These trials would continue through the end of 2014 and early part of 2015. The objective is to ensure that everything that we offer is future-proof and world-class,” Ambani added.

Network coverage

Terming it as the “most transformational initiatives” of RIL, Ambani said the network and broadband services will cover 5,000 towns and cities accounting for more than 90 per cent of urban India and over 215,000 villages in India.

“Eventually, the network will encompass each of our over 600,000 villages,” he said.

Reliance Jio has more than 10,000 full-time employees working alongside nearly 30,000 professionals from its partners and vendors from all parts of the world. In addition, there are more than 100,000 people working across the country to create the digital infrastructure backbone.

>rajesh.kurup@thehindu.co.in

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