RIL plans to invest another Rs 30,000 crore in Jio Infocomm to improve signal strength

New Delhi: In order to improve its signal strength, Reliance Industries is planning to invest a sum of Rs. 30,000 crore into Reliance Jio Infocomm.

The company in its board meeting held earlier on Friday decided to invest another Rs. 30,000 crore into its telecom unit and sell 600 crore preference shares to raise the amount.

These preference shares will be sold through a rights issue and will be nine percent non-cumulative optionally convertible (OCPS) available at Rs. 50 each including a premium of Rs. 40.

RIL had already invested Rs. 1.71 lakh crore while setting up its telecom venture Jio Infocomm. Ever since its launch on September 5, 2016, Jio has amassed more than 70 million users, owing to its free voice calls and data plans.

The subscriber addition rate is said to be one of the highest, thereby, raising Rs. 30,000 crore last year and rights issue in two tranches in January and September.The telecom major, however, has been suffering from lack of network coverage and call drop, which it now looks to overcome with the new investment.