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Jio crossed 50 million customers in 83 days: Mukesh Ambani

THE ASIAN AGE
Published : Dec 1, 2016, 1:59 pm IST
Updated : Dec 1, 2016, 2:40 pm IST

Ambani said in only three months, Jio has become the fastest growing tech company that has now started home-delivery of SIMs.

 Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.
  Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.

Mumbai: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Amabani on Thursday said that Reliance Jio, the 4G service he launched in September, grew faster than social networking sites like Facebook, Skype and WhatsApp in only three months.

“Jio crossed 50 million customers in 83 days. It has signed 6 lakh customers per day,” The Economic Times quoted Amabni as saying in a series of tweets.

According to Ambani, Jio in merely three months has turned out to be fastest growing technology company in the world that is also in the process of doubling its digitally-enabled outlets across country.

The company has said it has now started home-delivery of Jio SIMs.

The company has introduced Happy New Year offer under which customers will get 30 times the average usage on other networks free till March 31, 2017, Ambani said.

The billionaire industrialist congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "bold" and "historic" decision to demonetise old currency notes.

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