Company Press Release:
 
Reliance Communications drops Prices of Internet Data Cards
Mumbai, March 6th, 2008 : Reliance Communications, India’s largest Wireless ISP with over 10 million internet enabled data cards and mobile phones, has dropped the prices of internet data cards in order to pass on the full benefit of the recent reduction in customs duty in Union Budget 2008. The move is in line with the constant endeavour of Reliance Communications to offer the best class, affordable voice and data connectivity to many million Indian consumers.

“Reliance Netconnect is increasingly being adopted as the most effective  internet service by laptop and desktop users for its superior capabilities, including better speeds and consistency than Dial-up internet services”, said Mr. S.P. Shukla, President – Personal Business, Reliance Communications. “The new pricing would make Reliance Netconnect internet services more affordable for the masses, leading to faster penetration and growth, and result in further consolidating our leadership in this fast growing segment”, he added.

Under the new pricing, Reliance Netconnect PCMCIA data card and Reliance Netconnect USB Modem Data Card would be available for Rs 2590 and Rs. 2490 respectively. The price of the superior wireless internet solutions prior to the custom duty cut announced during Union Budget stood at Rs 2990 and Rs. 2850 respectively. The revised pricing, applicable from 6th March, 2008, results in a drop of over 13% making Reliance Netconnect services even more affordable.

Reliance Netconnect customers get the unmatched advantage of ubiquitously accessing the internet at high download speeds across 15,000 towns and 4 lakh Indian villages.
Customers can visit Reliance World or Reliance Communications outlets to avail of post-budget pricing benefits.


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 market capitalization of over Rs. 3,20,000 crore, net worth in excess of Rs. 40,000 crore, cash flows of Rs. 9,000 crore, net profit of Rs. 5,000 crore and zero net debt.

Rated among "Asia's Top 5 Most Valuable Telecom Companies", Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of around 46.5 million including over 1.4 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies by number of customers. Reliance Communications’ corporate clientele includes 1850 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 200 global 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 infocomm value chain, covering over 15,000 towns and 400,000 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.