吉奥在12小时工作日内以每分钟近一座的速度建设电信塔，随着其在印度全国范围内扩展5G网络，董事总经理阿卡什·安巴尼周四表示。该公司在5G推广过程中仅用19个月就覆盖了印度99%的人口，他补充道。在吉奥IPO活动上，阿卡什·安巴尼表示，该网络的规模为公司提供了竞争对手难以复制的基础设施优势。“在19个月内，我们覆盖了印度99%的常住人口。我们在12小时的工作日内每分钟建设一座塔。而这就是我们希望在业务中推动的效率，”他说。
Jio built telecom towers at a pace of nearly one per minute during a 12-hour working day as it expanded its 5G network across India, managing director Akash Ambani said on Thursday. The company covered 99% of India’s population in just 19 months during its 5G rollout, he said. Speaking at the Jio IPO event, Ambani said the scale of the network gave the company an infrastructure advantage that would be difficult for competitors to replicate.“In 19 months, we covered 99% of India's living population. We were putting up a tower every minute during a 12-hour working day. And that's the efficiency we want to drive in our business as well,” he said.
吉奥的基础设施布局，加上阿卡什·安巴尼所说的行业内最大的频谱库，将为其未来增长奠定基础，他补充道。“对我来说，这确保了我们拥有一个使我们的业务非常难以复制的基础设施布局。再加上我们拥有行业内最大的频谱库。而这三大支柱将成为我们未来增长引擎的基础，”他说。吉奥拥有超过2.5亿5G用户。吉奥开始推出5G服务已有三年，目前拥有超过2.5亿5G用户，阿卡什·安巴尼表示。
Jio’s infrastructure footprint, combined with what Ambani described as the industry’s largest spectrum bank, would underpin its future growth, he added.“For me, what that makes sure is that we have an infrastructure footprint that makes our business very hard to replicate. Coupled with that, we have the largest spectrum bank in the industry. And these three pillars will be the basis of our future growth engines,” he said. Jio has over 250 million 5G usersJio began rolling out 5G services three years ago and now has more than 250 million 5G users, Ambani said.
他还强调了利用公司网络向印度多语言客户提供人工智能服务的潜力。这些服务可能包括覆盖12种印度语言的通话摘要和转录，他说。根据阿卡什·安巴尼的说法，吉奥用户每月平均消耗约43.7 GB数据，而行业平均水平为26.7 GB。他说，这反映了吉奥在过去十年里在印度构建的数字平台的规模。吉奥如何改变印度的数据市场。当吉奥于2016年进入电信市场时，数据成本约为每GB 228卢比，阿卡什·安巴尼表示。
He also highlighted the potential to use the company’s network to deliver artificial intelligence services to Indian customers in multiple languages. These could include call summaries and transcriptions across 12 Indian languages, he said. Jio customers consume around 43.7 GB of data per month, compared with an industry average of 26.7 GB, according to Ambani. He said this reflected the scale of the digital platform Jio had built in India over the past decade. How Jio changed India's data marketWhen Jio entered the telecom market in 2016, data cost around ₹228 per GB, Ambani said.
他补充道，目前行业平均成本已降至每GB约7.50印度卢比，而Jio的成本仅为每GB约4.90印度卢比。他提到，当时平均下载速度约为2.5 Mbps，全印度的数据用户数量不到7000万，每位用户每月的数据使用量接近200 MB。安巴尼表示，Jio看到了将印度从一个数据资源匮乏的市场转变为移动互联网广泛普及市场的机遇。
The industry average cost has since fallen to around ₹7.50 per GB, while Jio’s cost is about ₹4.90 per GB, he added. At the time, average download speeds were around 2.5 Mbps, and India had fewer than 70 million data users, each consuming nearly 200 MB a month, he said. Jio saw an opportunity to turn India from a data-scarce market into one where mobile internet was widely available, Ambani said.
他指出，2016年Jio进入市场时，印度共有14家电信运营商；如今这一行业则形成了四大主要运营商的格局。Jio的目标客户是家庭与企业。安巴尼称，Jio的使命就是让每一位印度家庭、公民及企业都能享受到优质且价格亲民的数字服务。目前该公司还计划拓展家庭宽带业务，力求将自身的数字服务范围从移动互联延伸至更多领域。
India had 14 telecom operators when Jio entered the market in 2016. The industry now has four major players, he added. Jio targets homes and businessesAmbani said Jio’s mission was to connect every Indian home, citizen and enterprise with high-quality, affordable digital services. The company is also looking to expand its home broadband business as it seeks to extend its digital services beyond mobile connectivity.