bengaluru dharmesh 28 and pooja maurya 24 have been standing in the queue at the reliance digital store in indiranagar 100 ft road for over an hour now i dont know how much time theyll take each guy is taking at least 20 minutes said maurya who is trying to get her hands on the reliance jio sim most mobile outlets in the city have run out of jio sim cards and these are now being sold mostly through reliance digital stores the indiranagar outlet has seen around 500 people coming for these sims every day for almost three weeks the ten employees at the store can only process around 150 to 200 connections a day arunagiri thavamani 34 is also in the same queue constantly checking his coupon code that is required to activate the sim card thavamani who works with an it company has been to most mobile stores in indiranagar cv raman nagar area but could not get hold of the sim card he already has two other active connections bsnl and vodafone i just want to see how the 4g data experience is he tells toi however the increasing demand for sims is forcing stores to restrict the sales the spice hotspot retail chains outlet in ulsoor has some 5000 units of reliance jios lyf handsetsafter selling a few last week imraan pasha the store manager decided to stop the sales due to activation issuesthere is so much demand that reliance says servers have overloaded the sim cards we sold last week are still not active we have been told to sell sim cards only with the handsets now and not otherwise pasha said smaller stores around mg road also said jio is asking them to sell the sim cards bundled with the lyf handsets which is priced upwards of rs 3000 i am not sure if i want to make that investment yet because activations are not happening said aijaz who owns a small mobile recharge shop on residency road an accidental victim of the jio hype is reliance communications outlets in the city owned by mukesh ambanis younger brother anil ambani reliance communications sells reliance mobile branded 4g 3g and 2g connections which was launched in 2002 the rcom office in residency road sees around 50 enquiries a day about reliance jio by shalina pillai anand j tnn published on sep 8 2016 at 0333 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download