After telecom, Jio shifts focus to digital transformation of Indian businesses

BENGALURU If the nearly three-year-old Mukesh Ambani-controlled telecom company, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, has crossed the 340-million subscriber mark, making it India’s largest telecom enterprise in terms of users, revenue and profit, by disrupting the country’s telecom sector, the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries on Monday has not only raised the entertainment and digital bar for telcos, but also sharpened his focus on startups, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and big enterprises.

To begin with, in the 42nd annual general meeting (AGM) speech, Ambani took the high digital position by underscoring the fact that almost every conceivable emerging technology trend is present in the Jio fold—be that artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), blockchain, online multiplayer gaming, multi-party videoconferencing, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR).