Reliance Jio will be rolling out its complete commercial operations by December this year, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) said in his speech to investors in the annual general meeting. Over the next few months, the company will be rolling out Internet services on their beta programme which will involve "millions of customers" across India. "I am glad to announce that financial year 2016-17 will be the first full year of commercial operations for Jio," he added. Jio will achieve 100 per cent network coverage over the next three years, Ambani said, adding that it would also connect a million homes through fibre, with a capability to scale up such connectivity to India's top 50 cities, and added Reliance Jio services will be priced between Rs 300 and Rs 500. In addition to rolling out data and broadband services, Ambani also spoke about a slew of Internet services which are currently running on a pilot basis and will be launched shortly which includes a music streaming service, HD video streaming service, cloud-based drive, news and magazine applications, and a digital wallet. MediaNama had earlier in December 2014 reported about these services which was seen on a preview site briefly and has since been taken down. Digital services Jio Chat: Mukesh Ambani said that the company has launched its messaging application Jio Chat in April which integrates chat, voice, video calling, conferencing, file sharing, photo sharing. The application, available on the Goolge Play store and the iOS store, now has over a million active…
