After the smashing success of 4G, Reliance Jio is to come up with 5G for its users in partnership with Samsung! Yes, that’s right! For upgrading LTE services across the country, Samsung made the announcement of “I&G (Infill & Growth) Project” which would be of a great assistance for Reliance in expanding its network coverage and capacity.
Services of Reliance Jio will witness an extension in rural regions under this venture that will increase the connectivity to more than 90% populace along with enabling flawless coverage, both outdoor as well as indoor, in crowded urban regions.
Here’s what IANS was told by Reliance Jio Infocomm President, Jyotindra Thacker,
“We successfully achieved 100 million subscribers in 170 days and are committed to bring game-changing digital experiences to India with superior ecosystems, mobile content, all-IP networks and ongoing process innovations.”
He further said,
“It was possible because we introduced a truly effective LTE service, Pan-India. We are committed to bringing game-changing digital experiences to India with superior ecosystems, mobile content, all-IP networks and ongoing process innovations.”
The biggest greenfield LTE network of the globe has been set up by Samsung and Reliance. Here is what Samsung Electronics’ President & Head of Networks Business, Youngky Kim, said,
“The massive deployment of over a million cells across India is especially remarkable. We will strive to create new paradigms for LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G by closely cooperating with Jio as a unified workforce.”
Samsung has proved to be a helping hand for Jio by offering professional solutions like Quality Monitoring and Analysis (VoMA), Cognitive Traffic Monitoring and Optimiser, Samsung VoLTE, etc. which eventually resulted in Jio providing users more enhanced, advanced and better-quality services.
It was in the year 2012 that Samsung and Jio entered a turn-key agreement, the scope of which was so big that it included the whole network like equipment and services of establishment as well as maintenance.
Youngky Kim further stated,
“As Jio’s end-to-end LTE solutions partner, it is a great pleasure for Samsung to contribute to Jio’s tremendous success.”
In India, free HD calls (VoLTE) had initially been introduced by Jio only.
Samsung and Reliance have come up together to launch 5G, a great breakthrough!