Reliance Industries Ltd.

Reliance Industries’ (RIL) subsidiary Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has launched a new, state of the art 8,100 km cable system, the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG). BBG provides direct connectivity to South East Asia and the Middle East, then onward to Europe, Africa and Far East Asia through seamless interconnection with existing cable systems. Reliance Jio owns and operates the strategically important undersea cable landing facility in Chennai, providing a high-speed, high-capacity, low latency route connecting India to the rest of the world.

Providing robust, reliable, low latency connectivity, BBG strengthens one of the fastest growing global internet routes. BBG has deployed the latest submarine cable 100Gbps transmission technology, utilizing wavelength add/drop branching units along the route, with an initial equipped capacity of 9 terabits per second. In addition to Reliance Jio, the BBG partners include: Dialog Axiata, Etisalat, Omantel, Telecom Malaysia, and Vodafone. BBG is one of the new cable systems in the region in which Reliance Jio has invested as part of its broadband plans.

RJIL has large holding of pan-India liberalised spectrum, and the unified license. This makes it the only player that can offer voice telephony along with high-speed data on fourth generation (4G) technology across all 22 circles in the country.