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RJIL to start services on Republic day

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Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo
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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL), the telecom unit of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, is likely to launch its services on January 26th.

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According to senior level sources in RJIL, the company will start services in Kolkata, Karnataka, Bihar, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat circles by end of this month or on the occasion of Republic day of India.

Recently, RJIL has received signalling point codes from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for launching its national long distance (NLD) and international long distance (ILD) services.

It has been allotted the codes for both ILD and NLD services in Mumbai, Delhi, Karnataka and Kolkata.

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However, RJIL has pan-India 20MHz broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum in the 2,300MHz frequency band for 22 telecom circles and 5-7 MHzspectrum in the 1,800 MHz band in 14 circles which it plans to use for offering high-speed 4G services in 2015.

On the other hand, the company was the only operator to acquire pan-India 4G spectrum during the $8 billion BWA auction in 2010.

In the meantime, RJIL has signed infrastructure sharing deals with a number of major players, including Indus Towers, Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel's infrastructure arm Bharti Infratel.

Earlier, the company had also sought regulatory approvals to merge its two subsidiaries, Infotel Telecom and Rancore Technologies, with itself.

Reliance Jio holds a unified license, while Infotel Telecom has licenses for long-distance telephony and Rancore is an R&D unit.

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