Reliance Infocomm Ltd is expected to enter into a technical collaboration with US-based Qualcomm Inc by August this year for usage of its CDMA-based evolution data optimised (EvDO) technology in the latter's telephony operations.
Reliance Infocomm on Wednesday announced a series of investment plans for West Bengal in the infocom sector, including setting up a solution development and service center over the next three years.
Reliance Infocomm Ltd has deployed its first wireless Point of Sale terminal in Mumbai for processing credit card transactions.\n\n\n\n
The Delhi high court has asked BSNL to maintain a status quo on the question of interconnect agreement with Reliance Infocomm.
Ending the concept of talk time in pre-paid mobile telephony, Reliance Infocomm has launched a new recharge voucher of Rs 440 that offers unlimited local calls to any Reliance mobile or fixed phone within the circle.
Under the arrangement, a Reliance India Mobile user with an SBI account will be able to pay the bill amount directly from his account without having to pay any service charges.
Reliance Infocomm said on Tuesday that it will expand its CDMA mobile services to 3600 more towns within four months and expects its subscriber base to touch one crore (10 million) by early next year.
Reliance Infocomm on Thursday announced the launch of Joy 499, a path-breaking Post Paid Plan, with call charges of 40 paise per minute for intra-circle calls between RIM to RIM/ Reliance FWP/T and Re 1 per minute for all other calls, including STD.
Amid the ongoing tariff war in the telecom sector, Reliance Infocomm chief Mukesh Ambani on Wednesday said there would be no significant change in the ruling tariff structure.
Facing a penalty of Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) for illegal rerouting of international calls, Reliance Infocomm is understood to have submitted its reply in the appellate telecom tribunal TDSAT justifying its position.
Reliance Infocomm would enter into promotion of films, theatre and other entertainment events in a big way to give a fillip to its 'Showtime' sub-brand of RelianceIndia Mobile under the R-World platform.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed Reliance Infocomm to pay up a balance Rs 84.7 crore to BSNL for the demand of Rs 182.7 crore made by it for using the 'home country direct' services.
Reliance Infocomm said on Tuesday that it will expand its CDMA mobile services to 3,600 more towns within four months and expects its subscriber base to touch 10 million by early next year.
Reliance Infocomm is likely to offer international roaming on its mobile phones soon as all the main vendors -- LG, Nokia and Samsung
Reliance Infocomm on Wednesday said it would enter the pre-paid card segment soon for its mobile telecom operations.
The Supreme Court on Friday slammed the government for not cancelling the licence of Reliance Infocomm for illegally tapping the telephone of politician Amar Singh on the basis of forged orders. "Why didn't you cancel the licence of the service provider? It's gross negligence. Either the service provider was doing this deliberately or because of its incompetence on the basis of a letter full of errors," said the apex court.
The CBI in 2006 had registered a case against six top officials, including Manoj Modi, of the company, which has since then been transfered to Anil Ambani as part of family settlement to divide Reliance Empire.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on a petition filed by Tata Teleservices challenging the telecom tribunal's order, which classified the company's fixed wireless phone service 'Walky' as limited mobile. TDSAT had ruled that Walky service offered by Tatas was a mobile service, thus the private company was liable to pay a levy called Access Deficit Charge (ADC) to state-owned BSNL as per the interconnect order of telecom regulator Trai.
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Four former Indian CEOs - three of them with telecom companies and one from soft drinks major Coca-Cola - have come together to start an angel partner firm, the Phi Group. Interestingly, the group has roped in two former bosses of global telecom companies for its international foray.