Reliance Jio has launched its True 5G service in 11 cities on Wednesday (December 28). These cities are Lucknow, Trivandrum, Mysore, Nashik, Aurangabad, Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Zirakpur, Kharar and Derabassi. Jio users in these cities will be invited to Jio Welcome Offer starting today to experience unlimited data at 1 Gbps+ speeds at no additional cost.
Jio said that this is one of our biggest launches since we started rolling out True 5G services. These cities are important tourist destinations as well as major education centers of our country. This will not only provide the users with the best telecom network but also provide endless opportunities for growth in the areas of e-governance, education, automation, artificial intelligence, gaming, healthcare, agriculture, IT and SMEs.
Earlier, true 5G service was started in Madhya Pradesh. It was started from Mahakal Lok in Ujjain. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched this service of Jio in a program organized at Triveni Museum. Before MP, Reliance Jio launched its Jio True 5G service on 25 November in 33 district headquarters of Gujarat. Apart from this, this service has started in cities like Pune, Delhi.
Reliance Jio continues to dominate the telecom sector and continues to hold on to its number one position. In October, Jio has added 14.14 lakh new users to its network. With this, the number of users of Jio network has increased to 42.13 crore. At the same time, 8.5 lakh new users were added to Bharti Airtel in October. After this, the number of subscribers of Airtel has increased to 36.50 crore.
According to TRAI, Reliance Jio's market share in the telecom market has increased from 36.66% to 36.85%, while Bharti Airtel's market share has increased from 31.80% to 31.92%. At the same time, the stake of Vodafone-Idea has come down from 21.75 to 21.48% as of September.
