It's nothing but a gimmick. No one actually knows when the Jio is launching. Jio's core team itself doesn't have answer to this.
How do I know? My friend's father works in Reliance (core team) and he himself is working at Jio.
Jio will launch when they think they are ready. They are not rushing anything as they are still testing and working on stuff to improve the experience for the consumers.
They are working on optimizations just like last couple of days/months many of the customers must have noticed improved latency.
Jio isn't rushing like
Tata or Airtel. They are aiming for the #1 spot for Broadband in India.
And the question of LCO? They themselves are not willing to work with LCO directly. They want control of the operations. They want to sideline the LCO so that they don't harm their infrastructures. LCO's are not being directly involved (at-least for now).
So if your's Area's Hathway, Siti, Den and Excitel are in bad shape, you have no worries about LCO since they cannot compete with Reliance for their couple of double digit connections.
Only real threat, Reliance has is Airtel (max) and somewhat ACT. Any other LCO or ISP or BSNL even are not a threat.
BSNL is not a threat because BSNL doesn't have good customer support. So the people are sticking with them as they don't have choice.
Unsure > I believe they are working on Hathway too side-by-side to make a healthy competition in the market. So basically, with Hathway and Jio Fiber in the same area, ultimately the money is going in the same pockets. (It's like Ola and
Uber competing with each other where both's Angel Investor is the same).
So if one cost you 100 Rs. And other cost you 110 Rs. As the competition rises, both will lower or higher the prices. Overall, making a bigger market share for the same parent company. It will risk the Airtel a lot.
That's why Airtel might take some serious steps for the Fiber in coming year.