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Reliance offers STD calling @ 50 paisa
- Reliance STD calling bonanza for its customers
- Unlimited night calling free by Reliance
Chandigarh, March 22, 2009: Reliance Communications, India’s largest and only telecom service provider to offer nationwide GSM and CDMA services, today announced bonanza on STD calling for its customers in Punjab
In continuation of its policy of going the extra mile to ensure customer delight, Reliance has now introduced new STD calling cards in which rate of STD calls varies from 50 paisa to Rs 1 per minute. These STD calling cards will be available in denomination of Rs 125, 250, 650 and 875. All STD calls will be charged at 75 paisa during day and 50 paisa during night in calling cards of Rs 650 and Rs 875. Night onnet calling will be free in these cards while the validity will be 60 days.
In cards of denomination Rs 125 and Rs 250, night STD calling will again be charged at 50 paisa. However onnet night STD calling will be available at 25 paisa instead of 50 paisa in card of Rs 250. All STD calls will be charged at the rate of Rs 1 during day in card of Rs 125 and 90 paisa in card of Rs 250. Validity of both these cards is 30 days.
All these cards offer Full talktime minus the service tax. These cards can be used on all Reliance prepaid and postpaid phones including CDMA Mobile, GSM Mobile and FWP.
“It has always been our endeavour to offer value for money to our customers and this STD bonanza is another feat in this direction. ”, said Mr. Arvind Kumar, Regional Hub Head – Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and J&K Circles, Reliance Communications.
Reliance STD Cards |
MRP |
Rs 125 |
Rs 250 |
Rs 650 |
Rs 875 |
Talktime (minus service tax) |
Rs 113.3 |
Rs 226.7 |
Rs 589.3 |
Rs 793.3 |
Validity (in days) |
30 |
30 |
60 |
60 |
Tariff / min |
All Calls |
Rs 1.00 |
Rs 0.90 |
Rs 0.75 |
Night Calling - On-net |
Rs 0.50 |
Rs 0.25 |
Free |
Night Calling - Off-net |
Rs 0.50 |
Rs 0.50 |
Rs 0.50 |
Night Calling time 11pm-6am
Service tax @ 10.3% |
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.
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