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Reliance (Karnataka) launches “Century Pack” for Cricket World Cup.

Reliance Communications today announced the launch of the exclusive “Century Pack”  for the cricket world cup for its new customers on both CDMA & GSM service in Karnataka.  This pack offers 100% talk time, 100 Local and National SMS per day free for 1 full year.  The offer is available on the first recharge of Rs 83 with a tariff validity of 1 year.

• 100% Talk Time on all Recharges for 1 year
• 100 Local & National SMS / Day for 1 year
• First operator to launch a Full Talk time acquisition product in Karnataka.
• Applicable  for all new customers on both GSM & CDMA

Reliance launches 3G in Jharkhand

Cities like Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, & Jharia have been 3G-ed. Reliance Communication has launched its 3G services in Jharkhand and it covers the major 6 cities of the state in its first phase. Reliance Communications has now become the first private operator to launch 3G services in Jharkhand.

RCom ties up with TELibrahma to provide Free Cricket World Cup 2011 Video Updates & Replays on Mobile

Watching cricket match in a stadium is fun, to make it more exciting Reliance Communications tied up with TELibrahma to offer 'Video Updates and Replays' on Mobiles during the Cricket World Cup 2011. Under this exclusive deal TELiBrahma would deploy BluFi in stadiums and enable consumers to receive video highlights when they are watching the match in stadium. With the World Cup being played in different parts of the country, this becomes the world's first and biggest in-stadia deployment.

This tie-up will also enable consumers in BluFi locations across the country and those using intARact augmented reality browser to view highlights and action replays of cricket matches for free.  This solution is supported on more than 80% of the mobile phones in India and works across phone models, operators and geographies.

Announcing the video updates service, Mr Mahesh Prasad, President Wireless Business, Reliance Communications said, “As ICC’s Global Partner till 2015 we are proud to be associated with the game that is growing in popularity across the globe. The innovation and advanced technology that RCOM incorporates is ideal for today’s consumer who is always on the move. This time our customers will enjoy cricket with our new service video updates from ICC World Cup.”

Commenting on the tie up, Mr. P R Satheesh, President, TELiBrahma said, “TELiBrahma is pleased to be associated with Reliance Communications and do next big thing on mobile. We believe it would help consumers to catch the missing action and advertisers to achieve better ROI from their investment in cricket. This opportunity will help brands to deliver what is relevant to consumers at the place where it matters and on a device that creates the impact".

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Reliance launches Roaming Vouchers for TN Customers

Reliance Communications today announced a tariff voucher with special roaming rates for its CDMA & GSM subscribers in Tamil Nadu.  Reliance CDMA & GSM customers can now enjoy all incoming and outgoing calls to any network @ 1 paise per second. The offer is available on recharge of Rs 82 and tariff will be valid for 365 days.

“The need to stay connected is compelling users to pay higher tariffs. There is a need for value proposition for roaming user and Reliance Mobile fulfills the demand with its new value offer. Reliance has always been the pioneer of affordable telecommunication for the masses. Bringing down the cost of roaming tariff’s, will not only usher in new levels of affordability for telephony but will also create improved productivity for the Indian population.” said Mr. Rakesh Singh, HUB Head – TN & Kerala , Reliance Communications.

Reliance Communications signs pact with Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Reliance Communications today announced signing an agreement with Radio Netherlands Worldwide, an established player in news & entertainment broadcasting for over 60 years. Under the agreement, R World – the next generation mobile portal accessible to over 125 million Reliance 3G, GSM and CDMA customers, would offer 24/7 live streaming of Radio Netherlands Worldwide and will showcase its RNW WAP news feed on RWorld which includes regularly updated international news.

“News plays an important role in our day to day lives. Be it a college student, a young executive, a Corporate Chieftain or a small town entrepreneur; being in the know of what’s happening across the globe at push-of-a-button is essential for our customers irrespective of segments”, said Prashant Gokarn, 3G Head, Reliance Communications. “We are extremely delighted about our collaboration with Radio Netherlands Worldwide to offer live news to our 125 million customers at touch of a button on R World. We are focused to utilize every opportunity and technological advancements to offer enhanced value and benefits to our customers”, he added.

Jan Hoek, RNW’s Director General, said: “I am very pleased with our entry into Indian telecom space with one of the biggest telecom operators, Reliance. We are an important partner to its valuable subscriber base as a major value-added service. Interestingly, this is the first telecom company with which we have a partner relationship and we are looking forward to many more on a global basis along with advancements in technology”.

RNW is available on RWorld (News N TV) at a nominal browsing cost of 5 paise/10kb.

Reliance Communications announces multi-lingual R World

Reliance Communications today announced its plans to roll-out a new multi-lingual R World that will provide the user an option to personalize it in Hindi and other regional languages. It will also serve as a medium to provide Mobile Internet and Data Services to all its users. Reliance will employ Motricity’s m-Core platform to deliver these capabilities and to help itself in fulfilling the vision of providing cutting-edge services and applications on its 3G, GSM and CDMA mobile platforms.

• Highly-targeted mobile marketing and advertising campaigns, to further monetize the mobile Internet experience.
• Localized regional content to serve individual consumer interests and tastes.
• Multiple language support, starting with Hindi, the native language of over 250 million Indians.
• Location-based services to help ensure users get what matters most to them based on where they are at any given time.

Reliance Communications Launches “Job Search on Voice”

Reliance Communications introduces Reliance Job Search on Voice - a first-of-its-kind voice enabled job search services for its customers. ‘Reliance Job Search on Voice’ service is a real-time connection between the recruiter and the candidates and is initiated by playing the phone number of the employer to the job seeker which  enables the job seeker to listen to the job announcements and the recruiter can listen to profiles of hundreds of candidates that matches his requirement.

With this process, Job seekers in the Formal Segment (IT, BPO, Banking, and Manufacturing etc) can submit their job profile and browse through hundreds of matching jobs (from Naukri, Monster, Click Jobs etc) and select suitable jobs to apply for. The Reliance Job search on Voice service will then provide Job seekers with details of the selected job via SMS. The job seekers under this segment will also be to fill up their job profiles and can browse through all the listings (from Babajob, Newspapers etc) which will help them select suitable jobs, for which, the phone number of the employer will be played to the user.

In the case of User generated content (job announcements) from recruiters, job seekers can select suitable jobs and the MSISDN (Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network) of the seeker will be shared with the recruiter. Furthermore, Informal Segment recruiters looking to hire a domestic help (Cook, Maid, Driver, Nanny etc) will be required to create a profile by mentioning job categories, location and salary. Users can listen to profiles of hundreds of candidates that match the requirement. MSISDN of these potential job seekers will be shared with the recruiter and will enable them to contact the seekers.

Reliance Mobile customers can avail these services by Dialing 58010 to subscribe. The subscription charges are Rs.30/30 days (auto-renewal) with fallback options of Rs.20/20 days and Rs.10/10 days. There are no browsing charges and acquisition and renewal grace period is 3 days. A Formal Segment Job seeker can also be an Informal Segment Job Poster and vice versa at no additional cost.

RCom Launches MCA 2.0, an Enhanced Missed Call Alerts Service

Reliance Communications today launched MCA 2.0 with Notify Me, its new missed call notification service with enhanced features. Reliance Customers will receive missed call alert as at present – which tells a subscriber if they have missed a call due to their phone being either out of coverage area, battery exhaustion, phone is busy or switched off. In addition, ‘Notify Me’ alerts the callers, whose attempt to ring someone have failed, that the called number is now available to receive a call from them.

The missed call notification sms will detail the calling party’s mobile number, time & date when the call was made, whereby calling parties will receive a sms saying that the called party is available to receive calls.To subscribe to this service, Reliance customers have to type "M" and send an SMS to 51234 (toll free). Customer will be charged Rs.15 for 30 days for unlimited alerts.

The offer is also available through Chat and Play e-recharge in all retails outlets serving Reliance GSM, CDMA and 3G customers including the company’s retail outlets of Reliance Mobile Stores and Reliance World outlets across India.

Reliance Mobile Introduces ‘Talk STD’ & ‘Talk LOCAL’ offers

Reliance Communications today announced the launch of two new Prepaid tariff offers. Now, Reliance Mobile customers can call anywhere across India, across any network for as low as 33p/min effectively with STD @ Re1/3min and chat Local with 100 local mins free talk time @ Rs 28.

Talk STD offer can be activated by purchasing the Special Tariff Voucher at Rs.23 from Reliance relationship centres or other retail stores and Reliance World outlets across India. The validity of this pack is 30 days.

The offer is simple, a subscriber gets STD pulse of 3 mins and also it won’t require any change in their current local call tariff, which would remain as per base rate of subscriber (could be per minute/per second). The new Talk STD offer is available for all Reliance Subscribers(CDMA,GSM & 3G) across all plans.

Talk Local offer presents 100 mins free talk time for all local calls at a price of Rs 28, that is effective rate of 28p/ min and comes with the validity of 2 days. The offer is available for all 3G & GSM prepaid customers across India.