Reliance Jio Partners with Qualcomm to Accelerate its 5G Tech Plans
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Qualcomm has already invested Rs. 730 crore for 0.15 percent stake in Jio Platforms and was among the several private equity and technology firms which picked up a stake in the Reliance group company earlier this year. The partnership builds on the commitment by Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, who announced in July that Jio was developing made-in-India 5G technology, giving the country control over coveted know-how that is the foundation of a digital economy. The two companies also announced that they achieved speeds of one GB/s on Jio’s 5G solution using a Qualcomm platform. For illustration, what this means is that it will be possible to download a typical movie with a file size of one gigabyte in just one second.
Our long-standing collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies will accelerate the development of a full suite of 5G products and solutions, as Jio continues to support and drive open technologies in RAN
Speaking at the keynote of Qualcomm's 5G Summit, Reliance Jio Infocomm President Matthew Oomen said that Jio has developed a fully indigenous 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) product. Qualcomm also said that Snapdragon will support OpenRAN 5G, along with Jio and various other telcos. “Our long-standing collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies will accelerate the development of a full suite of 5G products and solutions, as Jio continues to support and drive open technologies in RAN,” stated Matthew. He further added “From Silicon to software all the functions of a Software-defined RAN will get tested at Jio Scale. These standards-based open RAN technologies along with the new Qualcomm 5G RAN Platforms will help to bridge the gigabit digital gap to deliver the Inclusive Digital Platform that is so much a necessity today for lives and livelihood in India and beyond”.
Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President & General Manager, 4G/5G, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, stated, “We recently achieved over a one GB/s milestone on the Reliance Jio 5G NR product, leveraging our Qualcomm 5G RAN platforms, and we look forward to expanding our efforts with Reliance Jio to enable flexible and scalable 5G RAN deployments". At the Reliance Industries annual general meeting in July, Chairman Mukesh Ambani had announced the design and development of a complete 5G solution and said it would be ready for trials once spectrum was made available.
Jio is also in partnership with Google and is developing affordable 4G and 5G smartphones based on Android, a development which could bring cheap smartphones to hundreds of millions of Indians and undercut dominant vendors from China.