Reliance Jio unveils JioSpaceFiber: India's first satellite-based giga fiber service for remote connectivity
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited on Friday demonstrated India’s first satellite-based giga fiber service called JioSpaceFiber to provide high speed broadband services to previously inaccessible geographies within India at India Mobile Congress 2023.
Jio has partnered with SES to access its medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite technology, the only MEO constellation capable of delivering truly unique Gigabit, fiber-like services from space, it said in a statement. Jio has so far connected four remote locations – Gir (Gujarat), Korba (Chattisgarh), Nabrangpur (Odissa), and ONGC in Jorhat (Assam) to demonstrate the new service.
“Jio has enabled millions of homes and businesses in India to experience broadband internet for the first time.
With JioSpaceFiber, we expand our reach to cover the millions yet to be connected,” said Akash Ambani, chairman Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited.
“JioSpaceFiber will allow everyone, everywhere, to fully participate in the new digital society with gigabit access to online government, education, health, and entertainment services,” he added.
In a bid to “connect everything everywhere across land, air, sea & space” Jio's new service will be available across the country and will help increase digital inclusivity for households in India in addition to its existing broadband services under JioFiber and JioAirFiber, the telco said.
JioSpaceFiber will further enable consumers and businesses to have access to reliable, low latency and high-speed internet and entertainment services, regardless of location, the telco said. The satellite network will also support additional capacity for mobile backhaul, further enhancing the availability and scale of Jio True5G in the remotest parts of the country, it
