Reliance’s investor website has the transcript, but not in a document format; you can refer to the same transcript here on MediaNama.
“Our network is ready, but of course, we have to see if the market, the regulations, etc., are also ready for those,” said Anshuman Thakur, Non-Executive Director, strategy & planning at Reliance Industries, while referring to the network slicing. He made this statement while responding to a question during this quarter’s earnings call.
Voice and data-level network slicing will depend on regulatory compliance: When Sanjesh Jain, Assistant Vice President, Equity research (Telecom), ICICI Securities, asked if they are looking for network slicing for voice and data, he said, “No, not today. You could again, you could potentially do that; the network supports it, but whether consumers need something like that, whether consumers would pay a premium for that, and whether that would be regulatory compliant, I think those are the things that we will need to work through.”
Network slicing won’t be limited to just B2B: “Even on mobility. You create specialised slices for different use cases. As I said, gaming will be a B2C direct-to-consumer offering,” he said.
Service-based network slicing is possible under India’s current telecom and net neutrality regulations, said Reliance Jio president Udai Kumar Srivastava, while reiterating that Jio’s 5G network is capable of network slicing at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) event in February 2026.
What is network slicing and why it matters: It is a technique that can allow telecom operators to create multiple virtualised subnetworks (known as slices) for dedicated purposes. For instance, the network can be “sliced” and offered for specialized use cases such as gaming, IoT, or business-to-business (B2B). Where network slicing becomes problematic is if the telecom operators don’t adhere to the net neutrality principles and undermine the quality of service for the users on the “normal slice”, while preferring the premium-paying customers, subscribers of the sliced network.
Without providing more details, Thakur said the company has a proprietary beamforming cell design to boost network coverage and capacity in high-traffic or crowded areas, such as stadiums.
Here are some of the interesting things discussed during the earnings call:
AI data centres started in Jamnagar: “We have started. There is work going on in our own data centres that we need for our captive purposes as well as for our partners in Jamnagar. So that work is going on. We are also working towards our gigawatt-scale data centres. And that is something that, in the next few quarters,” said Anshuman Thakur.
How Reliance is using AI in its workflow: AI is embedded across network operations such as automation, energy optimisation, and real-time KPI monitoring, and similarly in the retail sector, it integrates AI for demand prediction, assortment planning, and supply chain, said Thakur and Dinesh Taluja, Reliance Group’s CFO.
The recent additions to the JioStar OTT service: “Launched the short-form ‘Tadka‘ section with over 100 shows; integrated ChatGPT for voice search, including Indian languages/dialects; and enabled in-app food ordering via Swiggy during IPL live streams,” said Ishan Chatterjee, Chief Executive Officer of the sports division at JioStar.
Despite the real-money gaming ban, the T20 World Cup was profitable: “We also recorded the highest ever monetisation of the T20 World Cup, driven by strong advertiser depth as well as expansion into multiple categories. This is despite the RMG ban, the real-money gaming ban that we saw during the previous calendar year, and we had continued momentum going into IPL, where we delivered, as I said, the biggest ever Opening Day weekend in terms of viewership.”
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