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RIM Goes Global * Reliance Infocomm ties up with top CDMA operators in World * 1st CDMA operator to launch International Roaming DAKC (Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City), Navi Mumbai, August 18, 2005 Reliance Infocomm, an ADAE Group company, commercially rolled out its international roaming facility and became the first Indian CDMA operator to offer such a service to its customers. To begin with, the company has launched international roaming with top operators in the U.S., Israel, China, New Zealand and Indonesia and is in advanced stage of starting service with many others. In fact, Reliance Infocomm is close to signing up with 12 operators in 11 countries across three continents, which accounts for 90% of the global CDMA footprint. Reliance Infocomm's current international roaming arrangements at a glance: Country -- Operator China -- China Unicom Israel -- Pelephone Cellular Communications USA -- Sprint PCS Indonesia -- Mobile-8 New Zealand -- Telecom Mobile Ltd. Other countries on the anvil are the United States (in addition to Sprint), Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Canada. Announcing the commercial rollout, Inder Bajaj, Head - Post Paid Business, Reliance Infocomm, said: "While tariff will differ from country to country, our rates are structured to be highly competitive. For instance, rates for calls within foreign country are the best in the industry. Going forward, we intend to launch more products that will cater to the needs of international travelers like high speed data services and bring in synergies to existing products." "Following these tie-ups, postpaid subscribers of Reliance IndiaMobile will be able to remain connected with their homes and the rest of the world while roaming in these countries. Subscribers from these countries will be able to get similar service while visiting India. Many of these countries are very popular tourist destinations for Indians, while India receives a sizeable in-bound visitors from these countries," he said. Reliance Infocomm Ltd., an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group company, is India's largest private information and communications services provider, with a subscriber base of over 12 million. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises Group is a member of the Reliance Group, founded by Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002).

A better option would be to take Anujit's A-563

For that matter most of the names with reliance have been parked already. Including but not limited to relianceinfo.in, reliance.in, relianceinfo.net

@ashoksoft And whats the other number that Anujit keeps on asking for ever? ehhh...

Thanks Tanveer. Please continue with the review. Once yo are done and if we have some contributions from others may be we can combine all reviews and make one detailed review.

It is actually 144 kbps and not 114 kbps. <snip from http://www.relianceinfo.com/Infocomm/Rim/r...onnect.html> Reliance's cutting edge CDMA 1 x network offers you high speed internet access, at speeds up to 144kbps without tying you down to a landline. </snip> And that is the maximum speed you will get. Port speed not withstanding, the network cannot provide you more than 144 kbps until and unless we have EV-DO or EV-DV networks. People migrating from LG phones to Samsung/Nokia do observe marked difference because of the change in the architecure of the phone and not because of network. LG phones basically have serial connections which can sustain a maximum of 115 kbps, while Samsung/Nokia handsets have native USB which supports much higer speeds (230 kbps if I remember right). Hence, while on LG one is not able to achieve the maximum that the network can offer, one can utilize it to the fullest on Samsung/Nokia.

No that doesn't makes anyone the smartest or the dumbest person. But, you must and you must start reading the fine print. Most of the people who are willing to sue Reliance over DAPO (40p/min STD) are the guys who never read the fine print where it was clearly mentioned that any off-net/inter-connect charges would be levied seperately. Also, the father of all fine prints was "Tariffs subject to regulatory approval". Ultimately, its the fine print that matters and not the headline.

The news release never claims that Reliance is the first on earth. It says "the first Indian CDMA operator". And as far as I know TATA the other CDMA operator doesn't offers inernational roaming.

I cant wait to see the new look.... We are waiting Indra.... Lage Raho !!!

Yes. It is. But then Mobile is in italics

Shouldn't there be a space in between India and Mobile on top right. There used to be one in the earlier logo, but is missing now. And as my earlier mail was deleted I repeat again for the record - the new logo is GOOD.

Congrats Arun and Thank You. We couldn't have had a better gift on Independence day. PS: Its time to change the logo too

A single press of one of the external keys (volume/Scroll keys in Samsung) should silent the ringer and two presses should cancel the call. This works in almost all clam-shell phones. Hopefully it works in Nokia too.

CDMA and GSM are two totally different technologies. Presence of a mere smart chip reader doesn't makes a phone convertible. The SIM slot that you see is for RUIM (Removable User Identification Module) and not SIM. Reliance used RUIM in GTran handsets, and Tata uses RUIM for Nokia Handsets too. Samsung and LG have been working on phone models with capabilites of handling GSM as well as CDMA but those handsets still have to see the light of the market.

Yes it may be illegal as it has been released only to a closed community of MSDN. Anyway, Thanks Vishal for first providing the link and then telling me how to get it off too.

You maybe right, it was actually foolish of me to try the browser on a rivals site the moment I laid my hands on it. Even yahoo reverts you to the age old plain html version of their mail on IE7. And that stub near the tabs looks AGGGGHHHHHH UGLY!!!!!!!!! Firefox rocks, and if some designers can't design their sites with firefox, I would rather not visit their sites

Atleast its working with windows update, and that is the sole purpose for which I use IE since I got hooked upto Firefox - which incidently is a much much better browser. So no harm done.

And it managed to crash, the moment I opened gmail. It refuses to startup and now am stuck with it as I forgot to make a restore point before installing IE7.

Yeah looks good. This is my forst post from IE 7.

*Wonder* *ponder* If Mahrashtra is not divided into two circles for mobiles: *Why is it so that Orange provides services only in Mumbai and not in Mahrashtra? *Why is it so that Idea provides services only in Mah and not in Mumbai? *Why is it so that BPL-Essar (Hutch) merger requires intra-circular clearences only for Mumbai and not Mahrashtra. *Why do one need to roam with only friendly networks to avoid chargable incoming? If Mahrashtra is divided into two circles for fixed line: *Why do we have 95 dialling facility? *Why could Reliance provide CUG services and intra-circle call rates to all phones in Mahrashtra before it migrated to Unified License? Well, the explaination: As far as unified (mobile) licensing is concerned, Mumbai and Mahrashtra are still two seperate and distinct circles. Period. Only recently the government has notified that the calls in between these two circles will be considered as intra-circle calls for calculation of tariffs. This, however, doesn't amounts to merger of the circles or making them one. A licensee in one circle can still not develop infrastructre in the other. Licensee is still bound by the geographical limits imposed in the Unified License. A basic license (if applied for) today will include Mumbai in Mahrashtra, but such licensee will not be alowed to offer mobile services. Such licensee could only offer WLL(mobile) services which would be bound within the SDCA limits (remember the old days of Reliance). Yes, Reliance entered the market as a basic operator though it migrated to Unified license later on, and it in fact had Mumbai as part of its operations by aquiring the Mahrashtra circle. Maybe Rediff's telecom reporters are not as bad as their movie reviewers.

You are 8 hours 18 minutes too late deepu. Arun posted the same news item at 3:28 AM in the same thread a few posts above http://www.rimweb.com/forums/index.php?sho...indpost&p=37074 Maybe reading the forums before posting is a good practise.

Maybe we should seriously invite Anil to be a member of RIMweb now. Arun - are you listening?

Add to that: Earthquake in Bhuj: Jan 26 And there are a few others too, let me remember and I'll edit this post to include them.

I was talking to a friend today about the mobiles and he has exhausted a Rs 550 voucher in a week which normally lasts him a month - reason being his friends (who have Orange, Trump or Airtel) used his mobile to call their homes last Tuesday/Wednesday as his was the only mobile working, rest all had failed . And I do know people who have decided to move on to RIM after the last week.

Last Tuesday was a hell, even a well-thinking engineer/planner would not design sewer and drainage system for 37 inches of rain in a single day (that is way too much man), and to top it all when all your drainage lines are below sea-level and you need continous pumping to discharge - a high tide would make the mattes worse. And all this happened last Tuesday. However, this doesn't gives anyone an escape route because preparedness was such that the city was flooded when it had rained only 12 inches. And I would not say that city was better prepared this time (it has been raining cats and dogs since yesterday), but the rain god has been good enough to provide windows of relief, which help in draining the water logged areas to a certain extent. So we have 3 feet of water on streets instead of 6. Mumbai needs LOTS and LOTS of money and political will-power if it indeed wants to match the most developed cities. Delhi has been getting better and better roads every year, and now it has the metro too (maybe being the national capital helps). Mumbai should have had Metro a good 20 years ago. The MUTP and MUIP should have been in place a good 5 years ago. Hopefully, by the time we are done with these two, Mumbai would not have again outgrown the planning (sigh!!!). And, hopefully, Mumbai authorities would learn a thing from Delhi Metro, Delhi Police and Delhi goverment to plan the development causing least disturbance to the public with proper traffic planning.