Reliance Jio welcomes 28.7 million customers in first quarter of 2018
New Delhi : Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries Ltd announces the results of Reliance Jio’s Financial and Operational Performance for Q1 for financial year 2018-19. The company takes pride to added 28.7 million customers in the quarter, compared to 26.5 million in the previous quarter. The average data consumption per user per month is 10.6GB, while the average voice consumption is 744 minutes per user per month, according to a Jio statement.
Lately, Reliance Jio has announced JioGigaFiber services coming to 1,100 cities from August 15. For the first few months, the JioGigaFiber will be rolled out on priority based on number of requests. Jio also announced partnership with Screenz.
In terms of wireless broadband service, Jio claims to have increased its subscriber base from 186.6 million as of March 31, 2018 to 215.3 million as of June 30, 2018. The net subscriber addition during the past 12 months has been 92 million. The company claims to hold the largest wireless data subscriber base in India.
Talking about data engagement, the average data consumption on the network is 10.6GB per user per month, while average voice consumption stands at 744 minutes per user per month. The average video consumption is 15.4 hours per user per month, as per the company. The average data consumption was growth can be attributed to video consumption.
“Jio continues on its path to drive digital revolution in India. We doubled our customer base and most user metrics in the last 12 months. 215 million customers within 22 months of start is a record that no technology company has been able to achieve anywhere in the world. Jio has built an ecosystem for digital services and its affordable and simplified pricing strategy offers every Indian a chance to experience the “power of data,” Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director said in a press statement.