Reliance Jio Infocomm and Reliance Communications have signed an agreement for sharing of RCOM’s extensive intra-city optic fiber infrastructure. Under the terms of the agreement, Reliance Jio Infocomm will utilize RCOM’s nationwide intra-city fiber network for accelerated roll-out of its 4G LTE services across the country.

RCOM’s intra-city optic fiber network extends to nearly 500,000 fiber pair kilometres, across the top more than 300 cities and towns in India.

Companies already have inter-city optic fiber sharing agreement, signed in April 2013, and the nationwide telecom towers infrastructure sharing agreement signed in August 2013.

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), holds pan India Unified License. RJIL holds spectrum in 1800 MHz (across 14 circles) and 2300 MHz (across 22 circles) for (4G) wireless services. RJIL is setting up a pan India telecom network to provide 4G high speed internet connectivity, rich communication services and various digital services on pan India basis in key domains.