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Reliance Communications today announced the launch of Reliance 3G Services starting with Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chandigarh. With the 3G rollout, Reliance Communications becomes the First operator to offer 3G services to customers in the Top 3 Metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Reliance Communications has rolled out 3G services in around 100 days of receiving 3G Spectrum in the major Metros of India.

Reliance Communications holds 3G licenses in the telecom circles of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, North East, Jammu & Kashmir, Orissa and Assam. The company will be launching 3G services across all 13 telecom circles, where it holds 3G licenses, by end of Fiscal 2010-11. Reliance Communication has partnered with  Nokia for devices, Facebook, Nokia and Ericsson for applications, Universal Music for content and Motricity for the Web portal . 

Reliance 3G network has been designed to offer blanket coverage in every town being connected on 3G, with all its 3G sites connected through IP backhaul to provide maximum download speeds and minimum latency. The Reliance 3G network is capable of offering peak speeds upto 28 Mbps.

“The launch of Reliance 3G is an integral part of our Vision 2015 of creating a Wirefree India built upon the ‘affordable 3G for All’ platform. Personalization of Services, Simplification of Tariffs and a  Content Rich Portfolio on the ‘Best in Class’ 3G Wireless Network will enable Reliance customers to get a much superior 3G service experience, significantly differentiated from others in the marketplace”, said Syed Safawi, CEO – Wireless Business, Reliance Communications.  “Reliance 3G places us in a unique position with our suite of  offerings  covering 3G, CDMA, GSM and Mobile Broadband Data Services on the wireless platform”, he added.

“Reliance 3G services will offer the widest bouquet of cutting edge services including Video Calling, Mobile TV, Video Streaming and Applications accessed at superfast speeds ubiquitously on a variety of Mobile and Personal computing devices”, said Prashant Gokarn, 3G Head – Reliance Communications. “ A superior network with 100% optic backhaul, thousands of content rich applications delivered in an easy-to-access mode on a mobile screen, Personalization options and simple tariffs including daily sachet packs are the 4 pillars that will create a significant differentiation for Reliance 3G  services amongst customers”, he added.

Reliance Communications will launch a new mobile data portal, R World, powered by Motricity. This portal developed for the upcoming 3G services will deliver complete, end-to-end mobile Internet and data services to 120 million Reliance mobile subscribers at the click of a button. The ubiquitous Mobile Data Services Portal has been developed on Motricity’s mCore platform which powers 3G Mobile Portals of many leading global 3G service providers.

Motricity is a mobile data services and solutions provider serving some of the world’s largest mobile operators including AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Celcom and XL Axiata.

Motricity’s mCore Platform and Mobile as a Service (MaaS) delivery platform will enable Reliance Mobile Customers to access highly personalized mobile data experiences throughout the country. RCom claims that from R World, Reliance Mobile subscribers will have access to the high speed mobile Internet with download speeds up to 21 Mbps, high-definition Mobile TV and a host of advanced features, across a wide range of mobile devices, enabling mobile content discovery, mobile commerce, mobile social networking and mobile marketing campaigns and programs.

Reliance’s new R World platform will include the following features:

• Content Aggregation: Subscribers now have access to all of the most popular content, email and social networking sites direct from their mobile device through a centralized easy-to-access destination.
• Single Sign-On: Once users personalize their view of R World, they can access all of their content, email (Gmail, Windows Live, Ovi Mail) and social networks (Facebook, Twitter) with one login, eliminating the need to re-enter different passwords and user IDs.
• News Feeds: RSS functionality allows subscribers to browse through feeds and add them to their home page, ensuring they get the most relevant news, sports and content. R World offers four categories of RSS feeds; news, sports, infotainment and finance.
• Social Networking Capabilities: Through R World, subscribers can publish status updates across multiple networks check on the status of their network friends, read and comment on posts, through a single, user-friendly interface.

“Reliance is aggressively rolling out 3G services in India and we believe our partnership with Motricity will allow us to deliver a richer, more personalized, mobile Internet experience to our customers. Such innovations will be the cornerstone of Reliance 3G offerings going forward,” said Syed Safawi, CEO – Wireless Business, Reliance Communications. “The majority of our customers rely on their mobile devices to access the Internet. We are pleased to partner with Motricity to make our vision of a Wirefree India a reality for our customers.”

“Motricity’s partnership with Reliance to transform mobile data services across the region showcases the strength of Motricity’s comprehensive, end-to-end Mobile as a Service offering, and our company’s ability to quickly deploy a comprehensive platform. From the time we signed the agreement to the time of Reliance’s launch of R World was a mere 55 days. We look forward to continuing our work with such an innovative company, as they lead the region in rolling out 3G and mobile data services, in one of the fastest-growing, and largest mobile markets in the world,” said Ryan Wuerch, founder and chief executive officer of Motricity.

Reliance communication has announced the launch of its high speed wireless internet service, ”Net Connect Plus” in Hassan which turns out to be the 100^th city in which reliance has launched the wireless Internet service.

The Net Connect Plus has a downlink speed of 3.1 Mbps and an uplink speed of 1.8 Mbps. With this wireless internet service the people in the city will be able to get faster browsing speed, fast video streaming, video calling and many other features. The primary goal of reliance is to provide this kind if wireless internet service to more than 150 cities in India.

The wireless net connect service will come under the Reliance communication’s extensive Pan-India, next generation and integrated digital network spanning about 175,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable systems.

To create a group, user needs to type “C <GRP NAME> <Phone Number1> <Phone Number2> …….” with phone numbers (both mobile and landline) starting with prefix 91 (for mobile) & STD Code (for landline) and send this as a SMS to 51234323.  Five such groups can be created & max.9 numbers can be added per group.

To initiate a conference call, the user just needs to send a SMS in the format CHAT to 51234323 and all the group members will be notified via a SMS giving the Conference Dial-in number.

Postpaid subscribers can dial the unique number given at the time of group creation, which in turn will dial all the group members within the group to establish an instant call conference. The Group Talk service subscription is offered at a price of Rs. 40/- per month. Subscribers can also download the Group Talk application from RWorld and install on their handset if the handset supports this application.