Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJI) received unified licence on Monday, according to people aware of the development. This would allow the company to offer all telecom services including voice telephony under a single licence.
The company owns broadband wireless spectrum across all 22 mobile zones in the country for which it paid Rs 12,837 crore in a government auction in 2010. It got a go ahead from the telecom department to test 10,000 mobile numbers to offer voice services a few months ago. RJI is learnt to have paid an additionalRs1,658 crore to the government to comply with the new unified licence guidelines, issued in early August.
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