Jio’s fibre-to-home services may be launched by year-end

TIL Desk/Business/Mumbai/ Reliance Jio, which is set to disrupt the fixed broadband as well as media and content delivery platform segments with the launch of fibre-to-home (FTH) services, will invest Rs 50,000 crore on last-mile connectivity of 50 million homes with fibre over the next two to three years, according to sources close to the company.

A team of around 10,000 people was being put in place for the FTH roll-out, said sources, adding this would be one of the largest and fastest deployments of FTH broadband services anywhere in the world. Jio’s target is to ensure that customers use an average of 500 GB a month, nearly 200 times more data than they currently use on their mobile devices.

The network will offer customers speeds up to 1 gigabit per second.The commercial launch of these services, though not officially announced, could happen by the end of this year. At present, India has 18 million fixed broadband homes and only 1.25 million are connected with fibre broadband, though it has over 180 million TV households.  On the other hand, China has over 120 million homes connected with fibre broadband.