Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) is hoping to traverse the value chain in the technology, media, and telecom sector. The company successfully rolled out Reliance Jio Infocomm’s broadband wireless network and it has already become India’s largest telecom player with 340 million subscribers. This month’s cover story details the aggressive commercialisation plans for JioFiber, and how RIL has laid the groundwork and the ‘pipe’ for its ambitious triple play strategy. And in the centre of it all is Jyoti Deshpande, head of RIL’s media business, giving shape to an ambitious strategy, step by step.
This is also Fortune India’s ninth anniversary issue, and a lot has happened over these years. To mark this anniversary, we have compiled some of our best covers, tracked some of the biggest startups that have become unicorns during this time, and crunched some numbers to find out who are the winners and the laggards amongst the companies that went public nine years ago.
Editor Sourav Majumdar and deputy editor Aveek Datta talk about the latest cover story and more from the anniversary issue. On stands now, and Amazon: https://amzn.to/315NCCl