Jio to complete 5G roll out in Uttar Pradesh by December 2023: Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Jio has been aggressively expanding the availability of True 5G service in India. The company has already rolled out the service in 236 cities across the country and it is planning to provide pan-India 5G coverage by the end of December 2023. Now, on the sidelines of the Uttar Pradesh Global Investor Summit 2023 that is going on in Lucknow, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has revealed more details about the availability of Jio’s 5G services, especially in Uttar Pradesh.

While addressing the gathering in Lucknow, Ambani said that Jio will complete the rollout of its 5G service in Uttar Pradesh by December 2023. This coincides with the timeline that the company has set for the pan-India roll out of Jio True 5G in India. “Allow me to spell out Reliance’s commitment towards Uttar Pradesh…First, Jio will complete its rollout of 5G to cover every town and village in this state by December of 2023. That is in ten months from today,” he said at the summit.

It is worth noting that, at the moment, Jio’s 5G service is available in 15 cities in Uttar Pradesh. The list includes — Agra, Aligarh, Bareilly, Ghaziabad, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Moradabad, Noida, Prayagraj, Saharanpur, Varanasi, Mathura, and Gorakhpur.

At the event, the Reliance Industries Chairman also said that Jio Platforms will help in morderning all aspects of the state, including business, industry and governance. “Jio Platforms will help modernise all areas of business and industry, agriculture, social sector, and governance…We plan to pilot our two new innovative initiatives, Jio School and Jio AI Doctor to bring top-class education and healthcare most affordably to villages and small towns across the state of Uttar Pradesh,” he added.

Additionally, Ambani announced that his company will invest an additional Rs 75,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh within the coming four years.

“Today, I am happy to announce that we plan to invest an additional Rs. 75,000 crore in UP over the next four years across Jio, Retail, and Renewable Businesses,” the RIL Chairman said at the event.

“These new investments will create an additional over 1 lakh jobs in the state,” he added.