Year 2019 is here. And that means that Jio GigaFiber is expected to reach most of the areas in major Indian cities in a few months from now. The specific date, the India Today Tech learns, is in March. The Jio GigaFiber is already available in many areas as a trial service for free, and there are thousands of consumers in cities like Delhi and Mumbai who are already using Jio GigaFiber.

We earlier wrote about the review of the Jio GigaFiber based on the experience of someone who is already using it in Ghaziabad. Now, on the basis of the conversation the India Today Tech had with people involved in setting up the Jio GigaFiber we can confirm that the company is aiming to rollout the service commercially in March 2019.

Announced last year at company 41st Annual General Meeting, Jio GigaFiber is company's first-ever Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband service offered to the users through fixed lines. The service aims to connect up to 50 million homes in India. The Jio GigaFiber set up at home will include a Jio GigaFiber router and a Jio GigaTV Set-top box. The GigaFiber router can be used for running internet services on multiple devices at 1Gbps speed while the set-top box is for your television services.

"Jio GigaFiber will be the largest greenfield fixed-line broadband rollout anywhere in the world, with rollout happening in 1,100 cities of India simultaneously," Jio's Chairman Mukesh Ambani had said at the AGM.

With the Jio GigaFiber, the company aims to deliver offer wall-to-wall FTTH service for phones, televisions, computers and other devices. The wall-to-wall FTTH service here means that the internet speed of the service won't dip despite of the obstruction caused by the walls. The service is expected to roll out in 1100 cities in the first phase of launch.

Jio GigaFiber beta run gives users free fiber internet

Before the commercial rollout, Jio has selected some locations where it finds convenient to deploy the service. For example in Delhi-NCR the company is targeting areas with high-rise buildings and bringing the technology in select localities of Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Noida.

The India Today Tech reached out to a Jio GigaFiber service provider operating in Ghaziabad area who said that the commercial rollout of the service will take place in March this year. The company plans to add landline and set-top box services also during the same time. However, Jio's smart home solutions may take some more time.

The preview Jio GigaFiber offer

Jio under the preview offer is offering 1100GB data per month to the user with speed of 100Mbps for first three months. The actual price of the broadband plans will be revealed at the commercial launch of the service. The Jio GigaFiber installation is free of cost. However, the company asks consumers to pay Rs 4500 as a security deposit for the connection which will be refunded whenever consumes disconnect and deactivate the account.