Reliance Communications (RCom) is reportedly planning to tie-up with Reliance Jio for a pan-India intra-circle agreement, straddling the 800-MHz and 2,100-MHz bands. At present, both the entities’ alliance is restricted to sharing towers and fibre-optic network.
Following the deal, Reliance Jio, which faces challenges in the 2,300-MHz and 1,800-MHz spectrum bands (these don’t offer subscribers high-speed data indoors), will address this issue by using RCom’s 800-MHz band. Moreover, the intra-circle roaming agreement will also facilitate Reliance Jio roaming rights on RCom’s 2,100-MHz 3G band and offer services on this band.
RCom has five MHz of 800-MHz spectrum in most circles across the country and currently, this spectrum is unused.
Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of about 150 million, including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 4 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country.
