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Press Trust of India July 1, 2010 (New Delhi) Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications on Thursday announced acquisition of Digicable, the country's largest cable TV service provider, in an all-stock deal. The board of RCOM approved the proposal for the acquisition in a meeting held today, the company said in a statement, but did not disclose the value of the deal. The fresh acquisition of the company comes within days of it announcement to merge its telecom tower business with GTL infrastructure in a Rs 50,000 crore deal. The new entity named "Reliance DigiCom" will integrate RCOM's DTH, IPTV and Retail broadband operations, with Digicable. The deal would create Asia's largest and the world's fifth largest entity offering full-suite of Digital TV, ultra high-speed broadband and voice services. Commenting on the acquisition, RCOM Chairman Anil Ambani said: "the Digital TV and Broadband space is poised for similar explosive growth in the years ahead. "With this game changing move, we hope to lead the next revolution in digital home entertainment in India, by offering a world class TV experience and ultra high speed broadband capability to a billion people." Established in August 2007, Digicable is one of the largest Cable TV service providers in the country. The company is promoted by Jagjit Singh Kohli along with Yogesh Shah. Kohli has been a pioneer in Cable TV and Broadcasting industry with several path-breaking achievements to his credit. Reliance Digicom will have combined subscriber base of 11 million homes, the company said.

Reliance Digicom to start operations by December Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010 at 0130 hrs IST Reliance Digicom, the standalone entity planned by the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) for offering direct-to-home, IPTV, broadband and cable TV services under one roof, is expected to become operational by the year end, sources in the cable TV industry said. Reliance Communications had announced the formation of Reliance Digicom in July after it acquired Digicable in an all-stock deal. Big TV (DTH arm of ADAG), IPTV and retail broadband along with the existing cable TV business of Digicable will be part of Reliance Digicom. According to cable TV industry sources, Reliance Digicom is facing impediments due to differences over shareholding pattern in the entity, post merger. Also, there are diffferences among the stakeholders over the actual subscriber base and the number of cable operators who should come under the merged entity, sources familiar with the matter said. According to sources in RCom, Digicable’s holding in Reliance Digicom may stand at less than 15%. However, Digicable wants a bigger share as it will bring 10 million out of 14 million subscribers of the merged entity, a source familiar with the matter said. Big TV DTH with 3.5 million and, Reliance IPTV and retail broadband with 0.5 million would complete the subscriber base. While Digicable denied any trouble between the two parties over the proposed merger, Reliance Communications did not respond to email queries sent by FE on the formation of Reliance Digicom and its alliance with Digicable for over four days. When contacted, JS Kohli, CEO of Digicable, strongly refuted any problem in Digicable's merger with RComm. “We are happy to place on record that Digicable’s merger with DTH, IPTV, broadband businesses of Reliance Communications is proceeding very smoothly as per plan and in fact a high level of integration has already been achieved between the two organisations to the extent that we have now started operating from common premises,” Kohli told FE. Industry analysts said the formation of Reliance Digicom will make ADAG the biggest media conglomerate as it is already present in film production and distribution (Big Pictures), FM radio and broadcasting (RBNL), film exhibition (Big Cinemas), animation (Big Animation), movie rental (Bigflix.com), and social networking (Big Adda) among others. Reliance Digicom, once operational, will be the largest operator in DTH, cable, IPTV and broadband space. However, experts said the challenges of mergers including synergy in human resources, information technology and billing.

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Reliance Communications says will be among the early launchers of 3G services Mumbai, Oct 13 - Press Trust of India Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom), on Wednesday said it would be amongst the first private operators to launch its next generation 3G service offerings ''very soon''. "We are not going to wait for the other operators' launch and then position ourselves...ours will be among the early launches and it will be very soon," the company's Chief Executive, Akshay Kumar, told reporters here without giving an exact date. RCOM's rival Tata Teleservices has already announced that its launch would be before November 8. 3G is expected to revolutionise the country's telecom scene by offering real-time data downloads and also help revive the sagging fortunes of telecom companies. On the crucial issue of pricing its 3G services, Kumar said RCom's price-points will definitely be in keeping with competition. He also parried questions about the commercial feasibility of rates currently offered by state-run mobile operators. RCom, which has secured 3G license for 13 of the 22 circles, is in talks with other operators for partnerships for giving services in the uncovered regions, he said, adding the average revenue per user will increase post-the 3G launch. The Government had raised a whopping Rs 65,000-crore by auctioning 3G spectrum to private operators in May this year. State-run operators BSNL and MTNL have already been offering 3G services to customers while none of the private operators have launched its services as of now. Last month, RCoM had demonstrated its 3G service at the company's annual general meeting but its commercial launch is yet to take place.

EFYTimes Wednesday, October 13, 2010 ICC’s Cricket World Cups are the most prestigious and most widely followed event in India. Reliance Communication the ‘Global Partner’ for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 (ICC CWC 2011) organized a preview of the trophy at Mumbai today. Reliance Mobile also kicked off a series of promotional activities for ICC CWC 2011 as part of the partnership for the 2011 edition of the tournament scheduled to begin in February 2011. Cricketing legend and key member of Indian Cricket team which won the World Cup in 1983, Syed Kirmani was present at the occasion. This marked the beginning of the Reliance Mobile’s Trophy Preview across India before the tournament kicks off in Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 19, 2011. The ICC CWC 2011 Trophy will be handed over to the winning team of this tournament which is the 10th edition. Reliance Communications has a long standing association with Cricket having sponsored prestigious events like the ICC Champions Trophy and all the editions of the ICC World T20. The company received overwhelming response to its Value Added Services (VAS) offerings from cricket loving fans during the ICC World T20 tournaments. Encouraged by this, Reliance Mobile is all set to launch a host of services that provides exciting audio and video content on both 3G and 2G platforms during the ICC CWC 2011. The company has bagged the license to offer 3G services in 13 key circles including Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. Reliance Mobile also offers pan-India CDMA and GSM Services across 24000 towns and 6 lakh Indian villages serving over 115 million customers. Reliance Mobile will go LIVE with all ICC CWC 2011 matches through its already live specially created ICC zone on R-World VAS platform. Reliance Mobile customers will be able to keep a track of the 49 ICC CWC 2011 matches via WAP and SMS Alerts. They will be able to watch live stream of match highlights videos, watch previews and match round-ups, and download wallpapers and ringtones, anytime anywhere, with their handsets on both GSM and CDMA networks. For cricket buffs, Reliance Mobile will provide access to ICC rankings, archived content of previous tournaments, news & analysis of match/tournament/players, ball-by-ball score updates on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Data protocol. Customers will have the choice of downloading video clips and receiving video alerts over SMS. Reliance Mobile customers will have a range of services to choose from including video clippings of all matches India plays with live audio commentary and moment-by-moment text commentary on their handsets. Customers can capture the action and rare moments of the championship and set them as wallpapers. They can also set the ICC World Cup theme song as their caller ring back tune and download the video of the theme song. Commenting on Reliance Mobile’s association with ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Akshay Kumar, CEO & Regional Head, South West, Reliance Communications said, “The key market drivers will be the increasing availability of 3G services and support for high quality video, the globalization of sport personalities and club support, and the improvement of digital sports rights for mobile distribution.” He added, “These drivers apply to many types of leisure and information content, but none more so than sports content. There is a great opportunity for content owners, application service providers and operators to exploit sport content over the mobile channel in multiple innovative ways” Mobile sports information and entertainment services are expected to take an increasing share of global mobile sports, leisure and information content (infotainment) market over the next five years. Juniper Research forecasts that the global market for mobile sports content and service will grow at an average growth rate of 27 percent. Reliance Mobile will offer this world class application for iPhone, iTouch devices, Blackberry, Android & Symbian enabled devices, Nokia Ovi Store, Java devices and Samsung app store handsets. ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said: “As we prepare for what will be a great celebration of the game at our flagship event next year, we are fortunate to have a group of top-class partners whose commitment to the game is unquestioned. Without that commitment we would not be in a position to help our 105 Members grow the game as they do around the world. Through its commitment to and passion for the game, Reliance Mobile is helping to make our great sport even greater.”

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