{"id":1044745,"date":"2026-10-21T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044745"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:47:03","slug":"dad-the-internet-at-home-is-too-slow-how-jios-founding-idea-took-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/21\/dad-the-internet-at-home-is-too-slow-how-jios-founding-idea-took-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dad, the internet at home is too slow\u2019: How Jio\u2019s founding idea took shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani traced Jio&#8217;s origins to a complaint from his daughter, Isha Ambani, about slow internet at home &#8211; an experience that eventually led the group to build a 4G-only telecom network.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in London in March 2018 after receiving the FT-ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business award, Ambani recalled that Isha, home from Yale, needed to submit her coursework but struggled with the household internet connection. The incident prompted a broader family conversation about India\u2019s digital future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani traced Jio&#8217;s origins to a complaint from his daughter, Isha Ambani, about slow internet at home &#8211; an experience that eventually led the group to build a 4G-only telecom network. Speaking in London in March 2018 after receiving the FT-ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business award, Ambani recalled that Isha, home from Yale, needed to submit her coursework but struggled with the household internet connection. The incident prompted a broader family conversation about India\u2019s digital future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044745","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044747,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044745\/revisions\/1044747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}