Reliance Industries (RIL) has appointed Sanjay Mashruwala as the Managing Director of its 4G venture, Reliance Jio Infocomm, reports The Economic Times. Citing an executive with direct knowledge on this development, the report states that RIL had sent an internal mail to all its employees last week, announcing Mashruwala's appointment. Prior to this appointment, Mashruwala was serving as the president of RIL's petrochemical division and had apparently played a key role in RIL's oil and gas pipeline rollout, as indicated by a Voice&Data report. He had also reportedly played a key role in rolling out an optical fibre cable network across the country, when Reliance Infocomm had launched its mobile services in India about a decade ago. This appointment comes at a time when Reliance Jio Infocomm had signed a Rs 1,200 crore worth agreement with Reliance Communications for sharing RCOM’s nationwide inter-city fibre optic network infrastructure and making use of multiple fiber pairs across RCOM’s 1,20,000 KM inter-city fiber optic network to provide 4G services in the country. In return, RCOM had received reciprocal access to the optic fiber infrastructure being built by RIL. RIL's 4G Strategy: Interestingly, the report also mentions that RIL will offering two types of services - a wireless mobility service and a Google Fiber-like high speed broadband service along with television and other services. Remember that RIL has inked or at least rumored to have inked several partnerships with companies like Network18, Disney's UTV and Extramarks Education and with major cable operators, including MSOs (Multi-System Operators) such as Hathway, Den, Digicable and InCable over the past few years which can enable them…
