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  1. 0:00Today, it is my proud privilege to
  2. 0:02announce that Jio is making all
  3. 0:05arrangements to file for its IPO.
  4. 0:10>> I'm shifting from Airtel. I don't have
  5. 0:12network in my place, so I'm shifting
  6. 0:13from Airtel to Jio.
  7. 0:16>> Crazy, crazy situation. I can see people
  8. 0:18who've been standing in the queue for
  9. 0:19close to a couple of hours.
  10. 0:20>> [music]
  11. 0:23>> Ladies and gentlemen, Reliance Jio is
  12. 0:24going IPO and the market is buzzing with
  13. 0:27excitement.
  14. 0:27>> Jio.
  15. 0:28>> Jio.
  16. 0:28>> Jio.
  17. 0:29>> Jio IPO is literally rewriting the rules
  18. 0:31of fund raise.
  19. 0:34>> The mother of all IPOs is here.
  20. 0:37>> Jio is coming to crush every record in
  21. 0:39the book.
  22. 0:40>> [music]
  23. 0:42>> On paper, Jio looks absolutely flawless.
  24. 0:45They make 1.46 lakh crores in revenue,
  25. 0:4830,000 crores in profits, and they have
  26. 0:50524 million customers. So, they
  27. 0:52practically serve 1/3 of the entire
  28. 0:55Indian population. Now, we all know the
  29. 0:57Jio story. They made mobile data
  30. 1:00dramatically more affordable and they
  31. 1:01helped us turn India into an
  32. 1:03internet-enabled country. And that gave
  33. 1:05rise to everything from the creator
  34. 1:07economy to the acceleration of the
  35. 1:09Digital India revolution. But, whenever
  36. 1:11a company becomes this important to the
  37. 1:13Indian economy, I think it is worth
  38. 1:15understanding how the business really
  39. 1:16works. So, I went beyond the headlines
  40. 1:19and opened the 528-page draft prospectus
  41. 1:22to help you understand the numbers, the
  42. 1:24obligations, and the risks behind Jio's
  43. 1:26growth. And what I found are three
  44. 1:28things that the headlines are not
  45. 1:30covering. An outstanding spectrum
  46. 1:32obligation of 1.04 lakh crores, 10,182
  47. 1:36crores in deferred tax expense, and the
  48. 1:38pyramid behind the Jio's ecosystem. So,
  49. 1:40from Jio Bharat phones to Jio Saavn to
  50. 1:43Jio Fiber, Jio sells a dozen different
  51. 1:46things in all kinds of markets.
  52. 1:53So, the question is, how does the
  53. 1:55business actually make money? What are
  54. 1:57the risks in this mighty business of
  55. 1:59Jio? Why is this 10,000 crore tax bill
  56. 2:02being postponed? And when the tax bill
  57. 2:04actually comes knocking, how will this
  58. 2:06impact the empire of Jio?
  59. 2:08But before we move on, I would like to
  60. 2:09quickly thank Odoo for supporting our
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  62. 2:12about AI right now. If you're actually
  63. 2:14running a business, you're probably
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  72. 2:31making everything work together. It all
  73. 2:33starts with Odoo's AI agents. You can
  74. 2:35choose the agent model, define its
  75. 2:37response style, and set its core subject
  76. 2:39or purpose. Once that is done, your team
  77. 2:41can simply open a chat and ask for
  78. 2:43everything they need, from information
  79. 2:45to actions to insights, and the agents
  80. 2:47will get it done. For example, your
  81. 2:48sales pipeline becomes clearer with
  82. 2:50AI-driven probabilities and insights.
  83. 2:52Communication becomes faster with
  84. 2:53instant summaries and smart replies.
  85. 2:55Even everyday tasks, like note-taking
  86. 2:57and document sorting, can happen
  87. 2:58automatically. On the customer side, AI
  88. 3:01handles queries in real time and
  89. 3:03smoothly hands it off to your team when
  90. 3:05it's needed. That is what makes it very,
  91. 3:07very powerful. So, if you want to
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  96. 3:20Chalo, let's make this super simple.
  97. 3:22Jio has everything from recharge to
  98. 3:24set-top box to Jio Saavn to even Jio
  99. 3:27Phone. But in reality, the Jio business
  100. 3:30is defined by one simple equation:
  101. 3:32revenue equal to users into average
  102. 3:35revenue per user. So, Jio can do only
  103. 3:38two things: get more people to pay, or
  104. 3:41get the same person to pay more.
  105. 3:43To see how it does both, we need to look
  106. 3:45at India's internet users as a pyramid.
  107. 3:48In this pyramid, level one is the
  108. 3:50offline India. They form the bottom of
  109. 3:52the pyramid where there are 263.5
  110. 3:55million Indians who still use a basic 2G
  111. 3:58phone. For them, Jio built Jio Bharat
  112. 4:01phone for 799 rupees which works only
  113. 4:03with a Jio SIM and doesn't support any
  114. 4:06other SIM card. This phone is sold
  115. 4:08through Reliance stores and Jio's 6,323
  116. 4:11small town Jio points. Jio earns almost
  117. 4:14nothing here today, but once these
  118. 4:16people are in the ecosystem, they start
  119. 4:17paying a recharge of 123 rupees for 20
  120. 4:20days for 4G and this directly
  121. 4:22contributes to Jio's recharge revenue.
  122. 4:25Now, this is a complete blue ocean for
  123. 4:27Jio because in this zone of below 1,000
  124. 4:29rupees, there is no reputed 4G phone
  125. 4:32company at all. And while Jio charges
  126. 4:35123 rupees for 20 days, Airtel's
  127. 4:37cheapest plan costs 199 rupees for 20
  128. 4:40days, which is about 60% more. This is
  129. 4:44how Jio gets people into the ecosystem.
  130. 4:47Now, if you look at this market, it is
  131. 4:48so huge [music] that if all 26 crore of
  132. 4:51them pay 123 rupees for recharge, that's
  133. 4:543,198 crores every [music] 28 days. This
  134. 4:58is the bottom of the pyramid.
  135. 5:00Level two are free scrollers. These
  136. 5:03people have smartphones,
  137. 5:05>> [music]
  138. 5:05>> they do watch content, they do scroll,
  139. 5:07but they don't pay. So, what does Jio
  140. 5:09do? Jio [music] gives them content for
  141. 5:11free and sell their attention to brands.
  142. 5:14So, they sell ad slots and make money
  143. 5:16out of ad revenue. This is where MyJio
  144. 5:19has 216 million monthly users and they
  145. 5:22also have Jio TV, free version of Jio
  146. 5:24Saavn, free Jio AI cloud storage, and
  147. 5:27Jio [music] Games. In all these apps,
  148. 5:30Jio earns through Jio Ads. For those who
  149. 5:32don't know, Jio Ads is an advertising
  150. 5:34platform which also sends users to the
  151. 5:36rest of Reliance brands. In fact, you
  152. 5:38will be shocked to know that MyJio alone
  153. 5:41sent about 72 million visits to JioMart
  154. 5:44last year.
  155. 5:45Then, we have level three. Here's where
  156. 5:48we have bundle players.
  157. 5:50This is the heart of the Jio business.
  158. 5:52These customers pay only for their
  159. 5:54mobile recharge and get OTT
  160. 5:56subscriptions like Jio Hotstar and
  161. 5:58Netflix as free perks.
  162. 6:0077% of Jio's revenue comes from these
  163. 6:03prepaid recharges. And in total, Jio
  164. 6:06holds 49.95% of India's wireless
  165. 6:08broadband market. Airtel holds 35.13%
  166. 6:12Vodafone Idea holds 12.65% and BSNL has
  167. 6:15a meager 2.24% share.
  168. 6:18Then, we have level four, where we have
  169. 6:20home payers. These households pay for
  170. 6:22mobile and home internet, who pay for
  171. 6:25Jio Fiber, Jio AirFiber, Jio set-up
  172. 6:27[music] box and Jio TV Plus. Here, Jio
  173. 6:30Fiber and Jio AirFiber have 27.1 million
  174. 6:33homes. Airtel has 14.4 million homes and
  175. 6:36BSNL has 4.5 million homes. Then, in
  176. 6:39level five, there are super payers.
  177. 6:41These customers pay for everything. This
  178. 6:43includes everything from premium music
  179. 6:46on Jio Saavn Pro, Jio PC to cloud gaming
  180. 6:49on Jio Games. Each [music] product forms
  181. 6:51a small portion of the business. Level
  182. 6:53six is where enterprises are. Here, Jio
  183. 6:56generates revenue from banks, airports,
  184. 6:58IT firms, factories and India's
  185. 7:00>> [music]
  186. 7:00>> 79 million small businesses. In fact,
  187. 7:03Jio serves over 90% of Indian banks,
  188. 7:06over 75% of operational airports and
  189. 7:09eight of the top 10 IT companies.
  190. 7:12So, if you look at the pyramid, most of
  191. 7:14Jio's money sits here on level three,
  192. 7:16where there are bundle players. So,
  193. 7:18while Jio Bharat is meant to bring
  194. 7:19people into the funnel, every other
  195. 7:21product exists to push people one step
  196. 7:24up. All of this put together, Jio
  197. 7:27provides internet access to 524 million
  198. 7:29people, which is why Jio calls itself
  199. 7:32the gateway to digital India.
  200. 7:36>> Jio Platforms Limited pivoted India from
  201. 7:38being the 155th nation of broadband
  202. 7:41penetration and consumption in the world
  203. 7:43to number one in just 10 years.
  204. 7:47>> Reliance is never just a company.
  205. 7:49Reliance is a promise that every Indian
  206. 7:52should have the opportunity to
  207. 7:54participate in India's growth.
  208. 7:58>> But you see social impact and financial
  209. 8:00performance are two different questions.
  210. 8:02So the question is what does Jio's
  211. 8:04economics look like? Well, on the
  212. 8:05surface, just like I told you in the
  213. 8:07intro, Jio's FY26 report card is
  214. 8:09spotless. Revenue stands at 1.46 lakh
  215. 8:12crores, which is up by 14.5% by the way.
  216. 8:15Profit stands at about 30,000 crores.
  217. 8:17EBITDA margin stands at an extraordinary
  218. 8:2051.9%.
  219. 8:22But if you look deeper, there are three
  220. 8:23important numbers in the document that
  221. 8:25will help you understand Jio's financial
  222. 8:27position in greater detail. Firstly, you
  223. 8:29will see a spectrum payment to be made.
  224. 8:32For those who don't know, to run a
  225. 8:33mobile network, a company needs airwaves
  226. 8:36called spectrum, which it buys from the
  227. 8:38government at auctions. Now, the
  228. 8:40government doesn't ask for the full
  229. 8:41price on day one. It lets operators pay
  230. 8:43for it over many years with an interest
  231. 8:45of about 7%. Now, Jio says its net debt
  232. 8:49is just 0.36 times its EBITDA.
  233. 8:52But on top of that, Jio owes the
  234. 8:53government 1.04 lakh crores. For this,
  235. 8:57Jio will pay
  236. 8:59which is roughly 40% of its profits.
  237. 9:04>> [music]
  238. 9:04>> And after 2038, Jio only has to pay
  239. 9:07about 8,000 crores a year until 2042.
  240. 9:10So Jio's net debt is just 0.36 times its
  241. 9:13EBITDA, but if you add 1.04 lakh crores
  242. 9:17it owes for spectrum, the total
  243. 9:19obligations come to about 1.7 times the
  244. 9:21EBITDA. [music]
  245. 9:22This is the first number. The second
  246. 9:24number is the deferred tax bill. And if
  247. 9:26you look at this page of the DRHP, it
  248. 9:28says that even though their tax bill is
  249. 9:3010,300 crores, they only paid 118 crores
  250. 9:34in taxes. The question is, why is Jio
  251. 9:37paying 10,000 crores less in taxes?
  252. 9:40Well, there are three ideas that decide
  253. 9:42whether Jio's numbers are as good as
  254. 9:44they look.
  255. 9:45They are depreciation, free cash flow,
  256. 9:47and deferred tax. Now, these might sound
  257. 9:50like jargons, but they're actually very
  258. 9:51simple to understand. So, let's
  259. 9:52understand these three terms using a
  260. 9:54simple story. Meet Dave's cab company,
  261. 9:57Yellow Smart. Dave runs 10 cabs. He
  262. 9:59bought them from a dealer for 1 crore
  263. 10:01using a loan, and each cab lasts about
  264. 10:0310 years. So, in a year, his company
  265. 10:05earns 80 lakh rupees in fares. Driver,
  266. 10:08fuel, repairs, and permits cost 40 lakh
  267. 10:10rupees. He pays the dealer 10 lakh
  268. 10:12rupees of his installments every year,
  269. 10:14plus 8 lakh rupees of interest. Now, Jio
  270. 10:17is the same business, just bigger, a lot
  271. 10:20bigger. Instead of cabs, they have 3.6
  272. 10:23lakh towers, a million kilometers of
  273. 10:25fiber, and its airwaves. Now, let's
  274. 10:27quickly understand these terms properly,
  275. 10:29and then apply it to Jio's scenario. You
  276. 10:30see, Dave's cabs aren't a cost only in
  277. 10:32the year he bought them. They are used
  278. 10:34for 10 years. So, each year, his
  279. 10:36accountant counts only 1/10 of their
  280. 10:39price as a cost. So, instead of counting
  281. 10:411 crore in year one, and zero for the
  282. 10:43next 9 years, he counts 10 lakh rupees a
  283. 10:46year for 10 years.
  284. 10:48This slice is called depreciation, where
  285. 10:50the accountant spreads the cost of an
  286. 10:52asset across years that it is used. So,
  287. 10:54every year, Dave can claim this as an
  288. 10:57expense, and doesn't have to pay tax on
  289. 10:59it.
  290. 11:00Now, let's look at Dave's statement, and
  291. 11:01understand Jio's statement in parallel.
  292. 11:03Dave's Yellow Smart makes 80 lakh rupees
  293. 11:05in revenue. Running cost is about 40
  294. 11:07lakh rupees. Other income is zero. So,
  295. 11:10his earnings before interest, tax, and
  296. 11:12depreciation is 40 lakh rupees. Then,
  297. 11:14depreciation is about 10 lakh rupees,
  298. 11:16and interest is 8 lakh rupees a year,
  299. 11:19leaving a profit before tax of 22 lakh
  300. 11:21rupees. Then, he pays 5.5 lakh rupees in
  301. 11:23taxes, and is left with a profit of 16.5
  302. 11:27lakh rupees.
  303. 11:28Similarly, revenue for Jio is 1.46 lakh
  304. 11:31crore rupees. Running cost is 73,504
  305. 11:35crore rupees. Other income is 2,874
  306. 11:38crores and EBITDA is 76,255
  307. 11:41crores. And just like Dev spreads his
  308. 11:44investment across 10 years, Jio spreads
  309. 11:46his infrastructure investment over the
  310. 11:48life of those assets and they deduct
  311. 11:5027,249 crores this year. Then it pays
  312. 11:548,653 crores in interest leaving a
  313. 11:57profit before tax of 40,353
  314. 12:00crores. Now on paper, the tax comes to
  315. 12:02about 10,300 crores leaving a profit of
  316. 12:0630,049 crores. This is where Jio
  317. 12:09actually paid only 118 crores in taxes.
  318. 12:11So the question is, why is there such a
  319. 12:13huge gap between the tax on paper and
  320. 12:15the tax actually paid? Now let's
  321. 12:17understand the tax part using Dev's
  322. 12:19example. You see in a normal case, Dev's
  323. 12:21accountant calculates the life of the
  324. 12:23car to be 10 years and hence the expense
  325. 12:25that can be shown each year is only
  326. 12:27about 10 lakh rupees which is spread
  327. 12:29across 10 years.
  328. 12:29>> [music]
  329. 12:30>> So every year depreciation saves him 2.5
  330. 12:33lakh rupees in taxes. But imagine this,
  331. 12:35the government comes and tells Dev that
  332. 12:37Dev, bro your cabs are like super
  333. 12:39important for our economy, yeah. So we
  334. 12:41will let you assume a depreciation of 25
  335. 12:43lakh rupees each year instead of 10
  336. 12:45lakhs and you can finish the spread in 4
  337. 12:47years instead of 10. So they will
  338. 12:49actually show his depreciation to be 25
  339. 12:51lakh rupees each year for 4 years and
  340. 12:54hence [music] he will save 25% on 25
  341. 12:56lakh rupees which is about 6.25 lakh
  342. 12:59rupees in taxes instead of 2.5 lakh
  343. 13:02rupees which he would have [music]
  344. 13:03otherwise saved with 10 lakh rupees in
  345. 13:06depreciation.
  346. 13:07This gives him 3.75 lakh rupees extra
  347. 13:10for 4 years to reinvest in better
  348. 13:12infrastructure so that he can grow his
  349. 13:14business quickly. Now does it mean Dev
  350. 13:17will pay less taxes?
  351. 13:18>> [music]
  352. 13:18>> No, no, no. In a normal case from year 1
  353. 13:21to 4, if this profit is 40 lakh rupees
  354. 13:23and 10 lakhs is deducted, then from a
  355. 13:26taxable income of 30 lakh rupees from
  356. 13:27year 1 to 4, he pays 7.5 lakh rupees.
  357. 13:31And then from year 5 to 10, he also pays
  358. 13:347.5 lakh rupees. The total is 75 lakh
  359. 13:37rupees.
  360. 13:38But with the same profit, if his
  361. 13:39depreciation is 25%, his taxable [music]
  362. 13:42income will be 15 lakh rupees from year
  363. 13:441 to year 4. And he will only pay 3.75
  364. 13:48lakh rupees in taxes. [music]
  365. 13:49But from year 5 to 10, he will pay 10
  366. 13:52lakh rupees a year. So the total is the
  367. 13:54same, 75 lakh rupees. But because from
  368. 13:57year 1 to 4, he pays less tax, he can
  369. 14:00use that money to reinvest [music] and
  370. 14:02grow his business faster. So let's call
  371. 14:04this 1 to 4 year phase as growth phase
  372. 14:07and 5 to [music] 10 year phase as post
  373. 14:09growth phase.
  374. 14:10Just like that, Jio has been in the
  375. 14:12growth phase for a decade because it
  376. 14:15keeps buying new towers, fiber, and
  377. 14:17airwaves.
  378. 14:18And each new purchase brings fresh
  379. 14:20[music] tax deductions. So its deferred
  380. 14:23tax pile keeps on growing.
  381. 14:25Now, the postponed tax on [music] its
  382. 14:26network now stands at 55,611
  383. 14:30crores. And it just added 5,637 crores
  384. 14:33in FY26 alone. So the taxes will rise
  385. 14:36when Jio enters its post growth phase.
  386. 14:40So what Jio did was basically they
  387. 14:42carried forwarded the unused deductions,
  388. 14:44which is what let it just pay 118 crores
  389. 14:47of tax today. So the question is, what
  390. 14:49happens next? Because they will finally
  391. 14:51have to pay taxes, right? Yes. At FY26
  392. 14:54base, the remaining 17,443 crores of tax
  393. 14:57savings last for about 4 years. [music]
  394. 14:59And as profits grow, Jio uses it faster
  395. 15:02and this runway is expected to run out
  396. 15:04around FY29. So the conclusion is the
  397. 15:06profit of 30,049 crores is real, but it
  398. 15:10is not [music] free cash flow. After
  399. 15:12paying for new towers, airwaves, EMIs,
  400. 15:15rent, and interest, they have a free
  401. 15:17cash flow of about 20,300
  402. 15:20crores left. Number two, profit will dip
  403. 15:22a little from the interest and
  404. 15:24depreciation catching up, which will
  405. 15:25[music] partly be offset by the debt
  406. 15:27that the IPO repays. Number three,
  407. 15:30today's 20,300 crores of free cash flow
  408. 15:32[music] included near zero tax bill that
  409. 15:35ends around FY29. After that, roughly
  410. 15:3811,000 crores a year will go to the
  411. 15:40government, which is again easy to
  412. 15:41handle since they have a free cash flow
  413. 15:43of about 20,300 crores.
  414. 15:46And lastly, to keep this free cash flow
  415. 15:48at the same level of 20,000 crores, Jio
  416. 15:51needs about 11,000 to 12,000 crores more
  417. 15:54in yearly earnings by then. [music] Now,
  418. 15:56if you spread this number across 524
  419. 15:58million customers, that's roughly 18
  420. 16:00rupees more per user per month.
  421. 16:02>> [music]
  422. 16:03>> So, in short, this average revenue per
  423. 16:05user needs to increase by 18 rupees
  424. 16:07assuming the same number of users. Last
  425. 16:10year, they increased by 8 rupees. So, if
  426. 16:12they can increase it by another 18
  427. 16:13rupees, that would be fantastic.
  428. 16:15>> [music]
  429. 16:16>> So, will the tax change affect the
  430. 16:18profits? Not at all, because they've
  431. 16:19already accounted for full tax before
  432. 16:22stating the profits. But, will it affect
  433. 16:23free cash flow? Yes.
  434. 16:25So, now the question is, how can Jio
  435. 16:27increase this average revenue per user
  436. 16:29by 18 rupees?
  437. 16:31Well, it's actually pretty simple. Jio
  438. 16:32has four engines. Engine number one is
  439. 16:35higher recharge prices. Like we saw in
  440. 16:36the pyramid, 77% of Jio's revenue comes
  441. 16:39from one thing, prepaid recharges. So,
  442. 16:42for Jio, recharge prices matter more
  443. 16:44than anything else. As of today, if you
  444. 16:46look at this chart, in FY26, Jio's
  445. 16:49average revenue per user stands at 214
  446. 16:51rupees, whereas Airtel stands at 257
  447. 16:55rupees. That's 43 rupees more per
  448. 16:57customer.
  449. 16:59Now, if you think about it, it's
  450. 17:00actually a huge number. Because if you
  451. 17:02multiply 43 by Jio's 52.4 crore
  452. 17:04customers, you will see that it is
  453. 17:06around 27,000 crore rupees a year.
  454. 17:09That's practically almost all of Jio's
  455. 17:12annual profit. So, can Jio get each
  456. 17:14customer to pay a little more?
  457. 17:15>> [music]
  458. 17:15>> Well, that is a billion-dollar question
  459. 17:17because the bottom of the pyramid chose
  460. 17:20Jio to save that 43 rupees. So, it is
  461. 17:22easier to push the middle and the top up
  462. 17:25using this pyramid ecosystem and push
  463. 17:27the average revenue from 214 rupees per
  464. 17:30user to 250 rupees per user.
  465. 17:32Now, is it hard? Well, the DRHP says
  466. 17:35that an average Indian mobile internet
  467. 17:37user is expected to pay 326 rupees a
  468. 17:40month by FY31. So, on paper, it only
  469. 17:43looks like a matter of time. Engine
  470. 17:45number two is internet at home. In fact,
  471. 17:48I was actually shocked to know that
  472. 17:50today only about 20% of Indian homes
  473. 17:52have a fixed broadband connection. That
  474. 17:54is because to build infrastructure to
  475. 17:56provide fiber cables in every home is
  476. 17:58slow and expensive, which is why Jio
  477. 18:01came out with AirFiber, using which
  478. 18:03instead of a cable, a home gets fast
  479. 18:05internet through a wireless signal from
  480. 18:07a nearby tower. And Jio already has 77%
  481. 18:11of this wireless home broadband market.
  482. 18:13Now, the DRHP expects homes with
  483. 18:15broadband to more than double from 6.4
  484. 18:18crores today to 15 crores by FY31. And
  485. 18:22once a home is connected through Jio's
  486. 18:24set-up box, the same TV can become a
  487. 18:26computer through Jio PC and a gaming
  488. 18:28console through Jio Games.
  489. 18:30Each [music] of these services are
  490. 18:32actually an upsell, which can increase
  491. 18:34the average revenue per user.
  492. 18:36Engine number [music] three are
  493. 18:37businesses.
  494. 18:38Now, Jio doesn't just sell to people. It
  495. 18:40also sells internet, cloud storage, and
  496. 18:43software services to companies. And the
  497. 18:45DRHP report expects that these business
  498. 18:47markets will grow between 11 to 21% each
  499. 18:50year until FY31. And the biggest
  500. 18:52opportunity is actually small and medium
  501. 18:55businesses. India has 7.9 crore small
  502. 18:58and medium businesses.
  503. 18:59But you know, it's absolutely shocking
  504. 19:01to know that less than [music] 3% of
  505. 19:03them use these digital services today.
  506. 19:05So, if Jio can sell even a small part of
  507. 19:07this to its existing business network,
  508. 19:10it becomes a huge source of revenue.
  509. 19:12>> [music]
  510. 19:12>> The last engine is AI. Jio already
  511. 19:14offers Google's paid AI plan and Google
  512. 19:17AI Pro is free for 18 months to its
  513. 19:19unlimited 5G users. And it plans [music]
  514. 19:21to sell AI products to these businesses,
  515. 19:23which will be made by a Reliance and
  516. 19:25Meta joint venture. So, if you see, Jio
  517. 19:28is not just providing a service, it is
  518. 19:30also owning the massive distribution of
  519. 19:3252.4
  520. 19:34crore customers. So, think about it.
  521. 19:36When an AI company wants to reach Indian
  522. 19:38users at scale, Jio is one of the
  523. 19:41easiest distribution channels to do it.
  524. 19:43So, again,
  525. 19:44>> [music]
  526. 19:44>> here they can earn through distribution
  527. 19:46commissions. And this brings us to
  528. 19:47another important question.
  529. 19:49If they have 30,000 crores in profits
  530. 19:51and 20,300 crores in free cash flow,
  531. 19:55what do they intend to do with the IPO
  532. 19:56money? Well, firstly, the IPO money is
  533. 19:59being used to repay debt. They have
  534. 20:00loans that carry an interest of only
  535. 20:021.4% to 5.18% a year, and repaying
  536. 20:05[music] 27,500 crores saves roughly 400
  537. 20:09to 1,400 crores of interest a year.
  538. 20:12Secondly, this IPO isn't really about
  539. 20:14needing the money. Jio had 43,200
  540. 20:17[music]
  541. 20:18crores in cash and investments in March
  542. 20:202026, and they generate about 20,300
  543. 20:23crores [music] of free cash a year. This
  544. 20:25IPO basically gives Jio a stock market
  545. 20:27price and a currency for future deals.
  546. 20:29Number two, it lets the 2020 investors
  547. 20:31like Meta, Google, KKR and others to
  548. 20:33eventually sell in a public market. And
  549. 20:35lastly, it tidies up the balance sheet,
  550. 20:38which the DRHP says will help it raise
  551. 20:40further resources in the future.
  552. 20:42So, the question is, considering this
  553. 20:44dominating position of Jio, will
  554. 20:46everything go well with Jio?
  555. 20:48Well, as always, out of the many recent
  556. 20:50DRHPs, there are three risks that are
  557. 20:51worth knowing as an investor and as a
  558. 20:53customer. Risk number one is the average
  559. 20:56revenue per user. You see, Jio's future
  560. 20:58rests on each customer paying more, but
  561. 21:00the DRHP itself admits that after the
  562. 21:022024 tariff hike, the churn actually
  563. 21:04jumped. In fact, Jio only added 6.4
  564. 21:08million net customers that year against
  565. 21:1142.5 million customers the year before.
  566. 21:13Why? Because Indians are price
  567. 21:16sensitive. And by the way, the DRHP also
  568. 21:18says that even the Telecom Regulatory
  569. 21:20Authority of India could introduce
  570. 21:21[music] tariff floors, ceilings, or
  571. 21:23other pricing interventions. So, the
  572. 21:25only challenge for all telecom companies
  573. 21:26is can they increase ARPU
  574. 21:28>> [music]
  575. 21:28>> while investing heavily into
  576. 21:29infrastructure and still maintain
  577. 21:31profitability? This is the challenge
  578. 21:33that was faced by BSNL, [music] Vodafone
  579. 21:34Idea, and now with Airtel and Jio. Risk
  580. 21:37number two is the capex comeback. You
  581. 21:39see, 6G, satellite internet, AI data
  582. 21:42centers, home broadband, and
  583. 21:43international expansion. Every one of
  584. 21:46them require heavy infrastructure
  585. 21:48investment that needs serious money.
  586. 21:50However, Jio isn't starting from
  587. 21:51scratch. In fact, this 20,300 crores
  588. 21:53that they've generated, this is after
  589. 21:55capex last year. And Akash Ambani says
  590. 21:58that 6G will come as a software upgrade
  591. 22:01and not as a fresh buildout. Risk number
  592. 22:04three is disruption from the sky. Jio
  593. 22:06itself calls satellite internet the
  594. 22:08potential next disruptor. It has spent
  595. 22:11lakhs of crores on towers, fiber, and
  596. 22:13spectrum, and a satellite network skips
  597. 22:16all of that. Starlink is expected to
  598. 22:18cost around 3,000 rupees a month in
  599. 22:20India, while JioFiber starts at 399
  600. 22:23rupees only.
  601. 22:24That gap as of now is too wide to worry
  602. 22:27about. These are the most important
  603. 22:29takeaways from Jio's DRHP. So, the
  604. 22:31question is should you invest in Jio's
  605. 22:34IPO or not? Well, as usual, I am not a
  606. 22:37SEBI registered financial advisor, and
  607. 22:39you should not listen to me. My job is
  608. 22:41to help you understand how a
  609. 22:43billion-dollar business really works,
  610. 22:45and the Jio IPO just gives me an excuse
  611. 22:47and the perfect opportunity to give you
  612. 22:49a taste of what happens behind these
  613. 22:51billion-dollar companies. These are the
  614. 22:53most important takeaways from Jio's
  615. 22:55DRHP. That's all from my side for today,
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  623. 23:10>> [music]
  624. 23:17[music]

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