We have become a non-terrestrial player, ahead of competition: Jio

Satellites have evolved from being a vanilla backhaul system to becoming a base station in the sky and the co-existence of satellite communications with other mobile technologies is now a reality, Reliance Jio President Mathew Oommen has said.

Speaking to the press on the sidelines of the seventh India Mobile Congress (IMC), he said Reliance Jio, moving beyond traditional terrestrial spectrum, had become a non-terrestrial network player and was way ahead of competition.

While satellites have historically been used for backhaul services, satellite spectrum has begun serving the same devices and customers as that of terrestrial spectrum over the past two years, Oommen pointed out.