Reliance Jio, Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries' why-is-it-taking-so-long 4G venture with Bharti Airtel for sharing telecom infrastructure. The two companies will share "optic fibre, submarine cable networks, towers and internet broadband services", to avoid duplication of infrastructure and provide "redundancy to improve quality of service". The arrangement, the companies say, could be extended to roaming on 2G, 3G and 4G services. This is essentially an expansion of an earlier partnership between Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel in April this year, for international data connectivity. According to Airtel, the arrangement could, in future, be extended to Roaming on 2G, 3G and 4G, and any other mutually benefiting areas relating to telecommunication, including but not limited to jointly laying optic fibre or other forms of infrastructure services. Jio also has an agreement with Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications for sharing its nationwide inter-city fibre optic network infrastructure, and tower infrastructure within India, and the partnership with Airtel appears to be an attempt to build redundancy for powering its 4G services. RIL has also joined a consortium to set up a submarine cable system via the Bay of Bengal. Recent Reliance Jio News: December 2, 2013: Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has signed a deal with Samsung to procure BTS infrastructure for its 4G rollout, according to an unconfirmed report. Reliance Industries’s was earlier in talks with Samsung to buy LTE handsets, but apparently that deal fell through over pricing issues. Read more November 7, 2013: Reliance Industries’ payment solutions subsidiary Reliance Payment Solutions Ltd is the latest company to have received prepaid mobile wallet license by the Reserve Bank of India, for a prepaid…
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