Digital Fibre Infrastructure Trust (DFIT) was established by Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited (RIIHL/ Sponsor) on January 31, 2019, under the provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 pursuant to an Indenture of Trust' executed between the Sponsor and Axis Trustee Services Limited as the 'Trustee' of the Trust. Infinite India Investment Management Limited (IIIML) is the Investment Manager of the Trust and Jio Infrastructure Management Services Limited (JIMSL) is the Project Manager. At present, the Trust is engaged in the business of providing Fibre infrastructure and related services operations in India. 

The Trust was established with the objective of undertaking activity as an Infrastructure Investment Trust in accordance with InvIT Regulations. The Trust acquired 51 % equity share capital of Jio Digital Fibre Private Limited (JDFPL) on March 30, 2019. The Company, pursuant to a Scheme of Arrangement, acquired the Optical Fibre Cable undertaking of Reliance Jio lnfocomm Limited (RJIL) for a consideration w.e.f. March 31, 2019.

As on March 31, 2025, the Trust has only one Special Purpose Vehicle i.e Jio Digital Fibre Private Limited. JDFPL's fibre network consists of inter-city or National Long Distance (NLD) network, intra-city network and Fibre to the Home (FTTH) network. JDFPL owns and operates a pan-India operational optic fibre cable network of approximately 30 million fibre pair kilometers (FPKM). JDFPL's fibre network consists of inter-city or NLD network and intra-city fibre network.

The Trust undertook an initial offer of its units vide placement memorandum dated September 29, 2020, and raised Rs 14,706 Crore by the issue of 147,06,00,000 Units at an issue price of Rs 100 per Unit. The Trust further undertook right issue of its units vide letter of offer dated December 2, 2021, and raised Rs 4,789 Crore by the issue of 47,88,66,821 Units at an issue price of Rs 100 to the existing Unitholders and raised Rs 4788.67 Crore. Pursuant to the same, the number of units have increased from 147,06,00,000 Units to 194,94,66,821 Units.