Jio (El Kadsre)

Jio (sometimes called New Vlokozu Telecom) is a mobile network operated and owned by Spark, Telstra, Globe Telecom, StarHub, VCT, Digicel, and TK headquartered in El Kadsre City, West El Kadsreian State. its a national LTE network with coverage across telecom circles in the El Kadsreian Islands, aswell as the Caribbean and Africa. Jio does not offer 2G or 3G service, and instead uses voice over LTE to provide voice service on its network.

Jio soft launched on December 27, 2015, with a beta for partners and employees, and became publicly available on September 5, 2016. As of January 31, 2019, it is the largest mobile network operator in the El Kadsreian Islands.

On July 5, 2018, fixed line broadband service named Gigafiber, was launched.

History
The company was registered in El Kadsre City on February 15, 2007 as Jio Infocomm Limited.

In June 2015, Jio announced that it would start its operations all over the country by the end of 2015. However, four months later in October, the company's spokesmen sent out a press release stating that the launch was postponed to the first quarter of the financial year 2016–2017.

Beta launch
The 4G services were launched internally to Jio's partners, its staff and their families on December 27, 2015.

Commercial launch
The company commercially launched its services on September 5, 2016. Within the first month, Jio announced that it had acquired 16 million subscribers. This is the fastest ramp-up by any mobile network operator anywhere in the world. Jio crossed the 50 million subscriber mark in 83 days since its launch, subsequently crossing 100 million subscribers on February 22, 2017. By October 2017 it had about 130 million subscribers.

It has also been successful since its launch in both the Caribbean and Africa.