Reliance Jio, one of India's leading telecom carriers, has announced the launch of its 5G services in 16 cities across 7 states in India, marking a significant expansion of the new network. As part of the launch, Jio users in these cities will be able to take advantage of the Jio Welcome Offer, which provides unlimited data at speeds up to 1 Gbps+ at no additional cost.
The 16 cities with access to Jio's True 5G network include Kakinada, Kurnool, Silchar, Davanagere, Shivamogga, Bidar, Hospet, Gadag-Betageri, Malappuram, Palakkad, Kottayam, Kannur, Tiruppur, Nizamabad, Khammam, and Bareilly. Jio claims to be the only network provider to launch 5G services in the majority of these cities, which fall in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh.
A Jio spokesperson said, "These newly launched True 5G cities are important tourism and commerce destinations as well as key education hubs of our country. With the launch of Jio’s True 5G services, consumers of the region will not just get the best telecommunication network. Still, they will also get infinite growth opportunities in the areas of e-governance, education, automation, Artificial Intelligence, gaming, healthcare, agriculture, IT, and SMEs."
Jio's 5G network is said to have a three-fold advantage that makes it the only true 5G network in India. It has stand-alone 5G architecture with an advanced 5G network with Zero dependency on 4G network, the largest and best mix of 5G spectrum across 700 MHz, 3500 MHz, and 26 GHz bands and carrier aggregation that seamlessly combines these 5G frequencies into a single robust "data highway" using an advanced technology called Carrier Aggregation.
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