Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) will continue to evaluate strategic options to broaden stakeholder participation and support Jio\u2019s long-term growth, said its Chairman Mukesh Ambani. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to evaluate strategic pathways that can broaden stakeholder participation and support Jio\u2019s longterm growth, always guided by the principle of sustainable value creation,\u201d Mukesh Ambani said in the oil-to-telecom conglomerate\u2019s annual report for FY26. <\/p>\n
Ambani said that RIL aims to position Jio at the forefront of the global digital revolution, driving innovation across connectivity, artificial intelligence, cloud, and digital services. \u201cFrom connecting India to empowering India, Jio is now poised to help lead India into the digital future,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Jio is planning a mega $4-billion initial public offering (IPO). However, it has run into challenges exacerbated by the war in Iran, Bloomberg reported recently.<\/p>\n
Jio Platforms (JPL) and its subsidiaries cumulatively filed 6,817 patents in the fiscal year 2026 (FY26), with a strong focus on next-generation digital technologies, 5G, and sixth-generation (6G) technology.<\/p>\n
Of these, 2,393 were filed in India and 4,424 in foreign jurisdictions. Of the total filings, 1,009 patents have been granted globally, comprising 538 grants in India and 471 across foreign jurisdictions, as per Reliance Industries\u2019 (RIL) annual report for FY26 released on Thursday. <\/p>\n
With this, the telecom company has emerged as one of India\u2019s largest creators of intellectual property (IP). <\/p>\n
From JPL\u2019s tally, Jio\u2019s patent count stood at 3,476 in FY26 \u2013 up by 4.04% year-on-year. The telco, with over 524 million subscribers, filed 3,341 patents in FY25.<\/p>\n
Jio\u2019s patents span 6G, 5G, AI-LLM, AI-Deep Learning, Big Data, devices, the Internet of Things (IoT), NB-IoT, and homegrown 5G stack technologies, including its multi-user Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), JioBrain, and AI-based offerings.<\/p>\n
The Mukesh Ambani-controlled conglomerate\u2019s total research and development (R&D) expenditure for FY26 stood at \u20b94,682 crore. This compares with \u20b94,185 crore in FY25. <\/p>\n
Reliance has a workforce of 1,000+ scientists, engineers and specialists driving extensive in-house R&D. The company has a structured IP governance framework to manage and strengthen its patent portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic business priorities. <\/p>\n
Reliance Jio Infocomm had a turnover of \u20b91.28 lakh crore in the financial year that ended March 31, 2026, with a net profit of \u20b928,173 crore. Its networth was \u20b92.83 lakh crore, as per RIL\u2019s report. JPL\u2019s turnover was \u20b916,167 in FY26, with a net profit of \u20b91,281 crore, and a networth of \u20b92.10 lakh crore. <\/p>\n
India\u2019s largest telecom carrier, Reliance Jio, comprises the bulk of JPL\u2019s operations. <\/p>\n
In FY26, Jio\u2019s networks carried 241 exabytes (EB) of data traffic, and served more than 268 million 5G subscribers and over 27 million homes. <\/p>\n
It had a headcount of 74,822. <\/p>\n
\u201cJio\u2019s unparalleled coverage and capacity are enabling global scale engagement on its network which carried over 241 Exabytes of total data traffic during FY 2025-26, growing 30.8% year-on-year and making it one of the largest data operators globally,\u201d said RIL in the report. <\/p>\n
Global ambitions<\/p>\n
After large-scale development of 5G and FWA stack in India, Jio \u2013 as a managed services provider \u2013 would provide its proprietary network technologies in select international markets in partnership with local operators, said Reliance. This will include cloud-native RAN, 5G core, OSS\/BSS platforms, UBR-based FWA, JioBharat, JioTV+ and Jio set-top-box (STB).<\/p>\n
\u201cJio\u2019s digital service offerings are based on indigenous technologies which enables control over the entire value chain,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) will continue to evaluate strategic options to broaden stakeholder participation and support Jio\u2019s long-term growth, said its Chairman Mukesh Ambani. \u201cWe will continue to evaluate strategic pathways that can broaden stakeholder participation and support Jio\u2019s longterm growth, always guided by the principle of sustainable value creation,\u201d Mukesh Ambani said in the oil-to-telecom conglomerate\u2019s annual report for FY26. Ambani said that RIL aims to position Jio at the forefront of the global digital revolution, driving innovation across connectivity, artificial intelligence, cloud, and digital services. \u201cFrom connecting India to empowering India, Jio is now poised to help lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010582,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010577\/revisions\/1010582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}