Reliance Industries, leading private sector enterprise with businesses in the energy and materials value chain, in its 41st Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at June 12, 2015 has revealed that Reliance Jio (RJio) will commence its operations from December, 2015.

The chairman, Mukesh Ambani further in his speech said that FY17 will be the first full year of commercial operations of RJio. In next few months, the company will initiate an extensive beta launch involving millions of friendly customers. This beta programme will be upgraded into commercial operations around Dec, 2015.

The company has laid 250,000km of fibre optic cable for the internet service, and will double its network in a year. RJio service will cover all 29 states of India, and reach 80% of the population at the time of launch. It will cover 100% of the population in the next 3 years.

RJio is committed to net neutrality and all of its investments are in line with NDA governments Digital India vision.