Dec 31, 2016 12:11 PM
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Recently, Reliance Jio expanded its invite based beta launch to general public through their website jio.com . However, it is mandatory to buy a LYF 4G smartphone in order to get a Jio Sim. Also, the Sim only works on that particular phone as it is locked with IMEI number of SIM 1 for a period of 90 days.
Even so, it is not a bad deal as Jio is offering humongous mobile data for free, along with voice and SMS under its Jio preview offer for 3 months.
Also, if you do some simple math’s, spending around Rs 5000(basic LYF phone cost) for 90 days of unlimited data and HD voice at good speed might not be all that bad a deal. In order to get Jio Sim you have to register on their website and request an invite. Jio team will then send an invite with referral code if your location falls under their strong network coverage.
So, once we got our Jio Sim in hand, we decided to so a thorough review to see if all the brouhaha about Jio Services lives upto the expectation.
Jio has a Pan-India license for offering 4G services and uses 2300 MHz spectrum in bands 40, 5. They are also the only Telecom provider in India to offer true 4G services as its network also supports VoLTE . All other players offering 4g in India use LTE for data and 2G/3G for Voice. Hence, you can hear crystal clear voice on Jio’s network provided you have 4g VoLTE enabled smartphone.
Currently, Jio claims that it has covered nearly 80% area of India’s population which uses mobile services under its network, However, what we found in reality was that their network remains mostly unavailable in smaller towns and cities of Maharashtra. This is due to inefficiency of 2300MHz band that Jio uses to offer its 4G services for network coverage.
In order to overcome these drawbacks for 2300MHz, Jio is currently integrating its infrastructure with RCom to use its much efficient 1800MHz and 800MHz spectrum band. These integrations and optimizations of networks are much critical and time consuming.
Jio wants to ensure that their network is fully capable of delivering high speed data, VoLTE and above all a true 4G experience to its customers in India. Hence, we presume that it will launch its services commercially only after integrating and testing all of its optimized networks to deliver what it promised to.
