Reliance Jio reaches 160 million subscribers!

Reliance Jio has touched 160 million subscribers.Reliance Jio has taken only  a year to have 160 million subscribers. Jio changed the telecom market by offering some very good offers which attracted many customers. Earlier this year, Mukesh Ambani announced the launch of a 4G-enabled feature phone priced at zero, The phone offered internet, calls & sms at Rs 150 per month which is excellent.

The latest subscriber base of the telecom operator was revealed by Akash Ambani, son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, at an interaction with Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan during a glitzy event last evening to mark Reliance Industries' 40 years of existence and to commemorate founder Dhirubhai Ambani's birthday.
In an onstage chat with the Ambani twins Akash and Isha, the 52-year-old actor mentioned that Jio now has 100 million subscribers.
Akash corrected him saying "160 million, SRK!", in turn prompting the 'Badshah of Bollywood' to take a dig at just how good the Ambanis were with numbers.
Reliance Jio entered  telecom sector in September 2016 with a six-month promotional offer of free voice and data, a strategy that helped it mobilize millions of users.

Jio threw an open challenge to the incumbent telecom operators with its disruptive tariffs, triggering a price war that saw severe bloodletting in the sector in the following months.

Subscriber base

  The mobile subscriber base of India, the second largest market after China, stands at over 1.1 billion with Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular as the top three operators.

As per last published data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the subscriber base in October for Bharti Airtel stood at 285 million followed by Vodafone (208 million), Idea Cellular (191 million), and Jio (145.9 million). Reliance Jio subscriber base at 160 million.

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