Reliance Jio eyes 100 mn homes through its 5G fixed wireless access

Will be one of the world's largest players in this space once live

Reliance Jio’s aggressive target to reach 100 million households through the launch of the 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) could make it one of the world’s largest players in this space.

But this also marks a change from its earlier strategy of offering fibre-to-the home (FTTH) broadband to households. Despite its best efforts, in two years Jio has been able to connect only 7 million households with FTTH, as permission for right of way for the last mile became a major impediment and the process of laying ducts for the roll-out was slow and cumbersome.

The last mile FTTH will now be