At a speed of 49 mbps, you can now download a movie in just two minutes!

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) plans to offer a top data transmission speed of 49 megabit per second (mbps) downlink and uplink between 8-9 mbps through its pan-India 4G network, which is 10-12 times faster than 3G.

An RJIL official said that at a speed of 49 mbps, a subscriber can download a full-length movie of 600 megabytes in about 2 minutes. The average top speed of 3G network is 4 mbps.
"We are practically achieving a speed of 49 megabit per second downlink (download), and uplink is between 8-9 mbps. Theoretically, the present set-up that we have can achieve speed of 112 mbps downlink," the official said.


Apart from phones, the high-speed Internet connection will also be linked to household TV sets. The 4G network-based Jio Television can serve as a third alternative for consumers.

RJIL will provide outdoor customer premise equipment (CPE), which will be connected to its mobile tower.

RJIL will also enable homes that do not get strong signals to connect with its optical fibre network. "There will be wires which will run through houses of subscribers from this CPE that can be connected to various devices and create a local wi-fi network for people to access broadband.

There will be a set-top-box that we will facilitate both broadband and television services," the official added. Gearing up to foray into TV services market, RJIL has loaded 150 channels that it will provide across all devices ranging from mobile phones to TV sets using the 4G network.

"We have almost all leading TV channels By Mail Today Bureau in New Delhi across all genres from leading houses-Sony, Zee, TV18, Star and others. This is a trial phase and we will add more channels as we get ready for commercial launch," the official said.

The TV service will have a Catch UP feature that will allow users to see programmes of the past seven days. "We have our data centre ready which will automatically store these content," he added.

The cable TV market had more than 9.6 crore subscribers till the end of December 2012 followed by DTH services with over 5.45 crore.

RJIL recently tied-up with Sunil Bharti Mittal's Bharti Airtel to share the latter's telecom infrastructure such as optic fibre network, submarine cable networks, towers and Internet broadband services. Last April, RJIL inked a deal to use the optic fibre network of Mukesh's younger brother Anil to roll out its 4G services.