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Reliance Communications slashes prepaid GSM tariffs

• New subscribers can avail offer through First Recharge of Rs. 46
• Existing Subscribers can migrate to this plan with Special Tariff Voucher of Rs. 45
  

Chandigarh, April 1, 2009: Reliance Communications, India’s largest and only telecom service provider to offer nationwide GSM and CDMA services, today announced a massive reduction in its GSM tariffs for both new and existing subscribers.

Continuing with its philosophy of providing best value to its subscribers, Reliance Mobile has introduced a new tariff plan, where customers can make local calls to any Reliance Mobile at 30p, local calls to all other phones at 60p and what’s more, STD calls at a never before price of Re.1 per minute for a period of 90 days. Also, the subscribers would be able to make night calls to any Reliance Mobile in at 5p only. Further, the customers would be entitled to a talktime of Rs. 20 for all calls. This benefit would be available on new Reliance connections activated with a first recharge of Rs. 46 only.

For existing subscribers, a special tariff voucher of Rs. 45 has been introduced which would convert them to lifetime validity and offer the same benefits to the subscriber for a period of 90 days, without altering the current benefit of daily talktime credit. Also, unlimited free night calling benefit would also be a part of the bouquet of benefits.

“Our new offerings at the beginning of a fresh financial year clearly demonstrate continued focus on providing the best value for money offers to our customers. We are confident thqt we will continue to be the first choice of the people .”, said Mr. Arvind Kumar, Regional Hub Head – Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and J&K Circles, Reliance Communications.

“We have been blessed by the people as their preferred telecom service provider and we will be steadfast in our endeavour to provide market leading value propositions to them”, said Mr. Sanjeev Garg, CEO – Punjab Circle, Reliance Communications.

About Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 63,000 crore (US$ 14 billion), cash flows of Rs. 12,000 crore (US$ 3 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,000 crore (US$ 2 billion) and zero net debt.

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 65 million including over 2 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 20,000 towns and 450,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 175,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.