Mumbai, November 24, 2006:
In a move that would benefit millions of customers of Reliance Communications,
the company today announced the launch of Free STD calling facility at
night. Using the Reliance STD Call Card of Rs 675 (offering full talk time
of Rs 601) Reliance customers will be able to call any Reliance phone anywhere
in India completely free between 11.00pm to 6.00 am. And that’s not
all, for all other calls at any time in the day; the subscriber would pay
just Re 1 per minute.
"We decided to offer
this unique Free STD calling facility which will be appreciated
by our customers such as couples staying apart and wanting to have long
conversations, students staying in hostels wanting to stay in touch with
families and BPO employees who are active at night and many similar customer
segments”
said Mr. S.P. Shukla, President - Personal Business, Reliance Communications.
All Reliance subscribers
can use the new STD Card available all over India - irrespective
of whether they have a Post paid or Pre paid phone, whether Reliance Mobile
or Reliance Hello (Fixed wireless phones) of the company.
The company has established
a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent
(voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting the
best-of-class services spanning the entire Communications’ value chain,
covering over 6000 towns and 3,00,000 villages. Reliance Communications
owns and operates the World’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity
infrastructure, comprising over 150,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable
systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.
The company’s subsidiary, FLAG Telecom owns the World’s largest private
undersea cable system, which spans 65,000 kilometers and connects the top
business centers in developed and emerging markets across 6 continents.