India’s leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has signed an Indefeasible Right to Use (IRU) agreement with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm under which Bharti will provide Reliance Jio data capacity on its i2i submarine cable.

Bharti’s wholly owned i2i connects India to Singapore. Reliance Jio will utilize a dedicated fiber pair on i2i. The high speed link will enable Reliance Jio to extend its network and service reach to customers across Asia Pacific region.

The agreement will help Reliance Jio’s to expand both its international and domestic network and infrastructure by building an ecosystem with multiple carriers and service providers.

It will connect Reliance Jio directly to the world’s major business hubs and ISPs, thereby, helping the operator to meet the bandwidth demand and provide ultra fast data experience to its customers.

The state-of-the-art cable consists of eight fiber pairs using DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), capable of supporting multiple terabits of capacity per fiber pair. Its landing points are at Chennai in India and Tuas in Singapore

Bharti and Reliance Jio will continue to build on this strategic framework and consider other mutual areas of cooperation and development to leverage their respective assets towards offering their customers a much richer experience.

Bharti’s global network runs across 225,000 Rkms, covering 50 countries and 5 continents. It includes ownership of i2i submarine cable system connecting Chennai to Singapore, consortium ownership of SMW4 submarine cable system connecting Chennai and Mumbai to Singapore and Europe, and new cable system investments like Asia America Gateway (AAG), India Middle East & Western Europe (IMEWE), Unity, EIG (Europe India Gateway) and East Africa Submarine System (EASSy). It also has terrestrial express connectivity to neighboring countries including Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan and China.

Early this month, Reliance Jio Infocomm has entered into Rs 1200 crore pact with Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications to share latter’s nationwide optic fiber network. RCom has 1,20,000 kms of nationwide inter-city optic fiber network.

RCom had said that it would have reciprocal access to fibre infrastructure built by Reliance Jio Infocomm in future, RCom said.

In a related development Reliance Jio is believed to have been allotted 10,000 numbers by Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for testing mobile services roll out in Delhi, Mumbai and Jamnagar.

Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJI) is leant to have been given 4,000 numbers each for Mumbai and Delhi and 2,000 numbers for testing mobile services in Jamnagar.

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