At the 40th Annual General Meeting of Reliance Industries Ltd, the promoter company of Reliance Jio Infocomm, Mr. Mukesh Ambani revealed that Reliance Jio Infocomm has 10,000 full time employees working alongside nearly 30,000 professionals from our partners and vendors from all parts of the world. In addition, there are over 100,000 people working across the country in creating the digital infrastructure backbone for this network. They are passionate about building the largest broadband network that the world has ever seen.
Reliance Jio Limited field trials with initial set of services for the broad band services are already underway. Expanded field trials will commence in August this year 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.
RJio network will initially cover all states, all the 5000 towns and cities accounting for over 90% of urban India and over 215,000 villages in India. Eventually, the network will encompass each of our over 600,000 villages.
The fruits of the tremendous value created by this Rs. 70,000 crore initiative would start to flow. This value creation would be on a base of 1.25 billion Indians, with an opportunity to include all sections of our society in the exciting promise of the digital economy. They would ensure that every Indian has access to state-of-the-art digital connectivity and services that are on par with or better than anywhere else in the world. Reliance Jio will be one of the largest job-creating and wealth-creating business initiatives in India.