Reliance Jio completes 5 years of operation; The tech world congratulates – Times of India

New Delhi: From Google India to Zomato, and Netflix to Paytm – who in the tech world line up to congratulate the company on its five years of operation.
No wonder, that they have been the beneficiaries of the data revolution Reliance Jio Brought it with your dirt cheap rates.
Data usage in India has increased by 1,300 percent and the number of broadband users has increased four-fold since September 5, 2016, when billionaire Mukesh Ambani re-entered the telecom sector with Jio.
While HDFC said “Sar utake jeena koi tumse mange”, Hotstar said: “By asking ‘What is the score?’ Congratulations #5YearsOfJio for watching this live.”

Google, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, PhonePe, Apollo Hospitals, Ashok Leyland, Tinder India, Voot, Zee5, Samsung India, Vivo, Oppo, Dominos India, and Sony Liv are among those who took to Twitter to congratulate took. live On its 5th anniversary.
While Mi India said “5 years of driving the internet revolution in India”, Nokia said “kudos to you for your commitment to keeping India connected.”

Paytm, India’s largest digital wallet firm said, “Tum jio kardo saal! (May you live billions of years).

E-learning platform Unacademy said, “Here it is to help India learn and grow digitally!”
Online food ordering app Zomato, which in its IPO prospectus mentioned the digital connect created by Jio, said, “Birthday cake is on its way!”
“This #5YearsOfJio is ushering in the mobile internet revolution in India,” Micromax said.
Jio’s entry disrupted the Indian telecom market, forcing rivals to match its cheaper rates.
The TRAI Broadband Subscriber Report shows that the number of data users has increased 4 times in the last 5 years. The number of broadband users increased from 19.23 million in September 2016 to 79.27 million in June 2021.
The latest quarterly Telecom Performance Indicators report published by TRAI showed that monthly data consumption per user grew by 1,303 per cent from 878.63 MB to 12.33 GB between December 2016 and March 2021.
Since the start of commercial operations of Jio in September 2016, internet data cost has come down by more than 93 per cent from around Rs 160 per GB to Rs 10.77 per GB, according to the Performance Indicators report published by TRAI.
Experts say Jio broke the digital divide and helped usher in the era of true democratization of digital technology – empowering every Indian in the process.
Before the start of Jio’s digital revolution, there were 10 unicorns in India; This list has now increased to at least 53.
More importantly, Jio brought a digital revolution for all. For example, the number of Facebook users in India increased from 200 million users in 2016 to over 42 million in 2021. Similarly, the number of WhatsApp users also increased from 190 million users in 2016 to over 39 million in 2021.
Online businesses are booming, whole new value chains are being created, cutting out middlemen, making prices affordable. On the day of Zomato’s successful listing, CEO Deepinder Goyal had lauded Reliance Jio’s ‘massive growth’ for the opportunities it offers to new-age internet startups in the country.
Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, the world’s largest online video streaming company, has credited the success of streaming services in India to Jio and made headlines saying, “Every country should have its own Reliance Jio.”
Jio has also revolutionized the digital economy. UPI payments have increased 200,000 times in value and 400,000 times in terms of numbers. App downloads have also seen a significant increase.
In 2016, there were 6.5 billion downloads and in 2019 that number increased to 19 billion.