Company Press release:
"Reliance Communications to Unveil New 3G Mobile Data Services Portal on
Motricity Platform"
- Reliance Communications, Serving 120 Million Subscribers to Transform
Market with New Mobile Data Services Platform and 3G Rollout
Mumbai, India and Bellevue, WA – December 3, 2010
– Reliance Communications, India’s leading telecommunications service provider,
is launching a new mobile data portal, R World, powered by Motricity (NASDAQ:
MOTR). 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.
“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 is a leading 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 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.
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. 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.
Powered by Motricity, 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.
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 124 million with over 2.5
million individual overseas retail customers and nearly 3 million DTH 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 operators. 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 2,77,000
route kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East
and the Asia Pacific region.
About Motricity : Motricity (NASDAQ:
MOTR) is a leading mobile data solutions provider exclusively focused on the
rapidly growing mobile Internet market. It serves some of the world’s largest
mobile carriers, simplifying the mobile Internet and creating a personalized
mobile experience for subscribers. Motricity helps companies leverage the power
of mobility to make direct, personalized connections with their customers. For
more information, visit www.motricity.com or follow the company on Twitter @motricity.