RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS OFFERS SMS BASED MOBILE CONFERENCING SERVICE PAN INDIA

Company Press Release:

· Introduces India’s first ‘Handset Independent’ SMS-based Mobile Conferencing service

· Cost-effective instant on-touch mobile conferencing with up to 9 wireless and landline participants

· Just a text SMS to create a group and initiate conference calls and 5 such Groups can be created for convenience and repeat use

· Service offered to Postpaid & Prepaid Subscribers, pan India

· Available on both CDMA and GSM Network

Mumbai, October 26^th, 2010 – Reliance Communications, India’s leading service provider announced SMS based voice conference calls as an extension to its product Group Talk, a handset independent Mobile Conferencing service. This innovative group-oriented service will be made available to all Reliance Mobile GSM and CDMA subscribers using any handset through the ‘SMS based Mobile Conferencing’ solution from US based Kodiak Networks, a global leader of group communications’ solutions. The Group Talk service will enable Reliance Mobile customers to establish a conference call amongst a group of 9 contacts with a single SMS.

Group Talk was launched early last year as a Mobile Conferencing Service to offer mobile conferencing service on handsets with Java, Brew, Symbian operating systems and Blackberry handsets. Now, the enhanced service launched today offers mobile–centric conferencing facility from any handset. The new service helps all Reliance customers to stay connected in a more convenient way with families, friends and communities

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 <Group Name> to 51234323 and all the group members will be notified via a SMS giving the Conference Dial-in number. For further details, log on to www.rcom.co.in

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 competitive 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.

Commenting on the service roll-out on SMS, Mr. Anil Pande, Head – VAS, Reliance Communications said, “Our Mobile Conferencing service is a cost-effective, efficient and convenient solution that enhances productivity of small, medium enterprise customers. Introducing the service now on SMS – the preferred mode of communication for youth and young executives today, will lead to popularization of conferencing.”

Kris Patel, Executive Vice President and CTO, Kodiak Networks adds, “Kodiak is pleased to partner with Reliance Communications, the leading mobile operator in India with pan-India presence in both CDMA and GSM markets. Our solution is designed to simultaneously support GSM, CDMA and upcoming 3G networks and is a proven solution for productivity enhancement for enterprises and revenue enhancement for Reliance Communications. Introduction of clientless solution will enable Reliance to extend this useful service to all customers across India and thereby increase the adoption.”

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. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of 117 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 4 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 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 190,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

About Kodiak Networks

Kodiak Networks (www.kodiaknetworks.com) provides wireless operators with a comprehensive mobile solutions portfolio proven to increase revenue, promote group-based communications, and improve customer loyalty and retention. The Kodiak Connected Portfolio is comprised of mobile solutions targeted at Business and Consumer segments; an integrated mobile applications suite; and client-based and clientless user interfaces for open OS and embedded devices. The Portfolio components are based on the Kodiak Real-Time Exchange™ (RTX), a flexible, standard-based, multi-generational IMS compliant platform, which easily scales from independent operators to multinational carriers utilizing 2G or 3G networks. Kodiak customers span the globe and include deployments in North America, Europe, India, Latin America and Asia/Pacific.