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Capex-light strategy: Akash Ambani charts out Jio's growth path to 6G

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Jio Platforms Managing Director Akash Ambani and Reliance Industries Non-Executive Director Isha Ambani during a press meet in Mumbai on Thursday, days before the subsidiary opens what would be India’s largest initial public offering. | Image- PTI

Gulveen Aulakh New Delhi 4 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2026 | 12:09 AM IST

Jio Platforms (JPL), the parent company of India’s largest telecom services provider (TSP) Reliance Jio, is preparing a capex-light strategy to commercially launch 6G services, the next generation of connectivity with native artificial intelligence (AI), through software upgrades in the early 2030s rather than fresh infrastructure investments.

“We have over 360,000 tow­ers and over 1 million km of fi­bre across India. 6G is on our horizon. What this really mea­ns is that we will do 6G as a software upgrade rather than a new infrastructure build out,” Akash Ambani, managing director of JPL, said at the firm’s press briefing on Thursday.

This comes ahead of the opening of the over ₹30,000-crore JPL’s public offer from October 21 which will be India’s largest ever.

JPL was in the pre-standard phase with standards getting set by 2029, he said.

“The rollout of commercial 6G technologies will be in the early 2030s,” he added.

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