Jio Platforms mentioned these devoted digital community slices are designed for sectors corresponding to enterprise, IoT, gaming, Jio’s fastened wi-fi service JioAirFiber, and mission-critical communications
In sum – what to know:
10 nationwide 5G slices – The operator’s standalone 5G Core now runs 10 reside community slices to be used instances like IoT, gaming, FWA, and mission-critical providers.
Battle-tested – Jio’s slicing platform guarantees SLA-based experiences, with every slice optimized for scale, reliability, and isolation from community congestion.
FWA management and 5G scale – Jio AirFiber reached 7.4M subscribers, making it the world’s prime FWA supplier, whereas complete 5G customers surpassed 200 million in Q1 FY26.
Indian firm Jio Platforms has efficiently launched 10 lively 5G community slices nationwide, utilizing its in-house 5G Standalone ( 5G SA) Core to serve a variety of real-world purposes, senior vice chairman Aayush Bhatnagar introduced on LinkedIn.
“Community slicing is not a lab experiment — it’s reside, nationwide, and enabling actual use instances. Our 5G SA core and community slicing platform (NSP) are production-grade, optimized for scale, efficiency, and reliability,” he wrote.
These devoted digital community slices are designed for sectors corresponding to enterprise, Web of Issues (IoT), gaming, Jio’s fastened wi-fi service JioAirFiber, and mission-critical communications. The deployment guarantees SLA-based 5G experiences by isolating visitors for every slice, making certain efficiency even throughout congestion.
Community slicing, enabled solely by 5G SA networks, lets operators create a number of digital networks over a single bodily infrastructure. Every slice will be tailor-made to particular use case wants.
Within the first quarter of fiscal yr 2026, Jio reached 200 million 5G subscribers and 20 million residence broadband connections.
“Jio AirFiber is now the world’s largest fastened wi-fi entry service, with 7.4 million customers,” mentioned Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani within the firm’s newest earnings launch.
Reliance Industries is reportedly getting ready a scaled-down preliminary public providing (IPO) for its telecom arm, Jio Platforms, aiming to boost greater than $6 billion by itemizing simply 5% of the corporate, based on a latest report by Bloomberg.
Sources steered that the corporate is continuing cautiously resulting from issues that India’s market might not be prepared to soak up a bigger providing right now.
Jio Platforms is a digital providers holding firm and a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Restricted (RIL). It owns and operates a number of digital companies, with native telecommunications providers agency Reliance Jio Infocomm being the biggest and most well-known amongst them. Presently, about 80% of Jio Platforms’ $17.6 billion in annual income comes from its telecom arm.
In October final yr, Reliance Jio Infocomm mentioned it was taking a extra measured strategy to its 5G community enlargement resulting from low capability utilization and the delayed monetization of the expertise. Because of this, the Indian provider is shifting its focus in the direction of upgrading its present 4G customers to the costlier 5G providers, based on earlier stories.
The present utilization of the telco’s 5G community stands at round 15%, based on sources conversant in Jio’s tools suppliers. Nonetheless, sources at Reliance Jio Infocomm had claimed that precise 5G utilization is greater than double that quantity. Jio’s 5G infrastructure is supported by tools from Nordic distributors Nokia and Ericsson.
In the meantime, a Jio spokesperson mentioned that the corporate’s future investments within the 5G subject might be decided by demand. Business analysts anticipate that Jio’s subsequent section of 5G enlargement will seemingly happen as soon as competitors from Airtel intensifies. Jio’s 5G consumer base at the moment reaches roughly 130 million, whereas Airtel at the moment has practically 90 million 5G prospects.
In September of 2024, Mukesh Ambani, in control of Reliance Industries, claimed Reliance Jio Infocomm had reached nationwide protection with its 5G providing. Throughout RIL’s forty seventh annual common assembly, Ambani mentioned that greater than 85% of the 5G radio cells within the nation are operated by Jio.
