Jio mulls plans to get into satellite communications

Speaking astatine the Annual General Meeting of Reliance Industries connected Friday (June 19, 2026), CMD Mukesh Ambani announced the support of Jio IPO.

“Jio connected India connected the ground. Now, we indispensable link India from the skies. There are inactive remotest villages, land communities, and borderline outposts wherever the Jio web cannot reach. For them, outer connectivity volition beryllium the span to the remainder of India,” Mr Ambani said.

Jio is evaluating the improvement of a sovereign Low Earth Orbit outer constellation for India, helium said.

“We are besides partnering with the starring planetary constellation providers by leasing outer capacity, truthful that we tin accelerate work availability portion gathering our ain semipermanent sovereign capability,” helium said.

He said Jio is present considering plans to get into Satellite Communications. This dual attack volition alteration Jio to conscionable India’s connectivity needs faster, portion laying the instauration for the Indian outer broadband level of planetary scale, helium emphasised.

To anchor this ambition, Jio is besides gathering its ain crushed presumption infrastructure successful India.

“These crushed stations volition enactment our spouse constellations, arsenic good arsenic our ain aboriginal satellites, creating an end-to-end outer broadband ecosystem from abstraction to ground,” Mr Ambani said.

Reliance Intelligence gathering India’s sovereign AI backbone

Speaking connected Reliance Intelligence, a caller section successful Reliance’s deep-tech evolution, that was announced past year, Mukesh Ambani said, to code the scarcity and precocious outgo of compute successful AI, Reliance Intelligence is gathering India’s sovereign AI backbone successful Jamnagar.

“This cutting-edge infrastructure volition beryllium powered wholly by cleanable vigor from Reliance’s ain star procreation from the Kutch renewable platform. The archetypal 120 megawatts volition beryllium commissioned by the extremity of 2026,” helium said.

In addition, the institution would operationalise an archetypal fleet of precocious NVIDIA GB300 GPUs. This next-generation compute capableness is equivalent to much than 75,000 H100 GPUs connected an AI-inference basis. As the archetypal 120 megawatts becomes afloat operational, this capableness tin standard to implicit 2 lakh H100-equivalent GPUs, helium said.

“This capableness places Reliance among the largest AI infrastructure platforms being built anyplace successful the world. When compute becomes affordable, innovation becomes inevitable,” helium added.

Reliance Intelligence is gathering trusted, affordable, and multilingual AI services, designed to beryllium accessible successful 22 Indian languages. This sovereign, green, unafraid compute backbone volition powerfulness India-first applications specified arsenic JioBharatIQ, AI Vyapar, JioHealthIQ, JioLearnIQ, and JioKrishiIQ, helium stated.

“JioBharatIQ volition marque AI a companion for each Indian. AI Vyapar volition assistance tiny merchants and businesses amended productivity, service customers better, and vie with confidence.

JioHealthIQ volition bring intelligent healthcare enactment person to each family,” helium said.