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Reliance Communications unveils ‘Yuva Pack’ – a power pack of benefits for students in Karnataka Press Releases June 25th, · Multiple benefits including free (100 minutes) STD calling for 30 days and 100 SMS everyday for 90 days · Offer applicable for new Reliance Mobile GSM customers on first recharge Bangalore, June 25, 2009: Reliance Communications today launched “Yuva Pack” a package full of multiple benefits including 100 minutes of STD valid for 30 days and 100 SMS everyday for 90 days. This pack priced at Rs. 201 is being targeted at the large student community in Karnataka. Packaged according to the needs and usage pattern of the youth, this pack provides a talk time of Rs 20 besides other benefits in a single offering. ‘Yuva Pack’ can be loaded after subscribing to the GSM service with an entry of Rs 49. The tariffs on this pack is pegged at 30 Paise/min for Reliance to Reliance local calls, 60 Paise/min for Reliance to other local calls and Re. 1/min for all STD calls. In addition, night calling (11pm to 6am) to Reliance Mobile is pegged at 5 Paise/min. The tariffs are valid for 90 days on availing this offer. ‘Yuva Pack’ is a limited period offer available till 30th of June 2009. 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. 63,000 crore (US$ 14 billion), cash flows of Rs. 12,000 crore (US$ 3 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,000 crore (US$ 2 billion) and zero net debt. Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 80 million including over 2 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 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 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 communications value chain, covering over 20,000 towns and 500,000 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. Direct link to the news article is listed below http://press-releases.techwhack.com/38029-yuva-pack

The pricing is good. I would say that this is only introductory offer from TATA GSM. Do not read too much into this offer. This offer would have its effect only if TATA introduces this/similar tariff on its CDMA network as well.

If u want only RGSM to RGSM unlimited free then recharge for Rs 199. Validity 30 days

The GSM connection is deteriorating in quality day by day. At least for two hours in a day, there is no network coverage on my phone. Repeated complaints to the customer care have turned a deaf ear. Also, sometimes, the phone shows full network, but the moment i start dialling a number, the network falls off to zero and displays "No network coverage". I have decided that I am not going to continue with their GSM services after my account expires in July, 2009.

Wonderful dude!!!

Fantastic plan. Especially a local tariff of 30ps/min is awesome. I think by far this is the cheapest offnet tariff by any operator.

Regrding on-net mins, what the service providers can do is, they can play a small recorded voice mentioning the service provider of the person who is being called. This will give ample time for the caller to understand what the charge of the call might be(in case he has on-net free or not)

Just because Tata uses a different branding for their GSM services, it does not mean that tata will outperform Reliance and also the same is applicable vice versa also. If Reliance is able to drive home the point to the customers that they are offering on both the CDMA and the GSM platforms, that would be the defining factor. I agree with you that as of now their advts are not self explanatory. Lets wait and see how Tata deals with multiple branding. I definitely agree with you that Reliance has a lot to do on the marketing front to drive home the point to the customers else it would lead to a confusion. I agree that the advts mentions RELIANCE GSM. But from what I have observed, CDMA and GSM are still jargons for most of the mobile users. Even now when the word RELIANCE is used, immediately people think about buying a new handset. I have observed that the easiest way to explain to people is that "Reliance is now offering mobile services which can be accessed on ordinary Nokia Phones". I find that people understand only when i tell them the above line. Reliance must device an advt which helps them bifurcate the services in terms of technology and drive home the point to the consumers.

Let them sign in Hrithik Roshan or SRK, I dont care, as long as they provide good service in terms of network quality. In my opinion brand ambassadors dont mean much. They are there just for the initial push and after a certain period of time, the sucess of the product would depend on the quality rather than who the brand ambassador was. RCOM GSM has a lot of catching up to do with other established GSM players as well as its own CDMA network. Lets wait and see how this works out!!!!!!

Good work dude!!!!!! Lets keep our finger crossed for the much awaited commercial launch of Tata GSM services

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. And if I am right ramesh, even Idea is a new operator in Tamil Nadu. So dont expect the smoothest of rides. If I were to choose I would still stick on to RGSM, because of the value they offer in terms of schemes etc. Moreover I have not used Idea. I prefer a known "devil"(RGSM) rather than an unknown "angel"(IDEA)

Today I saw in the times of india, Bangalore that Reliance Netconnect 1X price has been slashed from Rs. 2490 to Rs. 1990.

THE HINDU Online edition of India's National Newspaper Saturday, May 16, 2009 Bharti Airtel subscriber base crosses 10-crore Special Correspondent To roll-out one-lakh base station sites by year-end MILESTONE: Sunil Bharti Mittal (left), Chairman and CEO, Bharti Enterprises with partners and board members in New Delhi on Friday. NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Friday said it has become the first service provider to cross 10-crore subscribe base. Making this announcement here, Bharti Enterprises Chairman and Group CEO Sunil Mittal asked the government to announce a stable spectrum regime to boost growth of the telecom sector. With 10-crore subscribers, Airtel has become the third largest single country mobile services operator in the world and sixth largest integrated telecom company globally. After having started its service in 1995 as Bharti Tele-Ventures, the company crossed the 7.5-crore customer mark in August 2008 and 5-crore mark in October 2007, making it one of the fastest growing telecom company in the world. The first 2.5-crore subscribers were achieved in July 2006. “The Indian telecom sector, seen as providing the most affordable services in the world, has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade. We are proud to have led the telecom revolution that made a positive impact on the lives of people in every corner of the country as well as the Indian economy,” Mr. Mittal added. Targeting 20-crore subscribers in the next 2-3 years, Airtel will be undertaking a series of network augmentation and customer service initiatives. “We will roll-out over one-lakh base station sites by this year-end to set up wider and deeper network coverage across the country and establish a state-of-the-art customer service management centre, besides setting up one-lakh Airtel service centres in rural areas by March 2010,” he said. Airtel at present has 25 per cent subscriber share and 30 per cent market share in terms of revenue. It is only behind two Chinese operators in terms of subscriber size measured within a country.

Reliance offers better options to the customers in this avenue. STD as well as Local at 50ps/min after the first minute. And that too at an additional expense of Rs. 39/month

I would also recommend a LG rather than a Nokia. Agreed that Nokia is the undisputed leader in GSM, but the same coveted position is held by LG in the CDMA segment.

I had a look at the handset at a nearby Reliance Communications oulet. Beautiful and a cute looking handset!!! A smart handset for basic handset lovers.......... Anybody used it? Any user reviews????

In karnataka also, Rs. 21 has been introduced. Rs. 45 offers talktime of Rs. 20 and night calling from Reliance to reliance is free. Rs. 21 offers zero talktime and Reliance to Reliance night calling is charged at 5ps/min Call rates for both the tariffs remain the same except the night calling benefit.

A sell off is impossible. Consider this, if they sell CDMA, then they will be losing the netconnect business which has an added advantage compared to the same service offered by the GSM subscribers. Also, considering the past history of Reliance, they have never exited businesses completely unless forced by circumstances totally out of their control (eg. the plan to acquire L&T). Definetely, I agree that past history is history and there are possiblities that history maybe resripted or rewritten in totality. But this would be a point against he rumours. If they were anytime keen to exit the CDMA business, they would not have introduced the Netconnect Broadband, which is a headache for the company considering the fact that COAI has approached the Govt against the launch of Tata's photon and Reliance's Netconnect Broadband. Now, even though the company has an inclination towards their GSM subscribers, I am sure that over a period of time when MNP is implemented, both the technologies will offer very similar, in fact the same tariffs. The main reason why such freebies are extended towards the GSM subscribers is that it is a newer network with a lot of inherrent problems. Even though the company claims it to be a congestion free network, it has problems like the network dissapearing all of a sudded never to return for hours together. SO they want to keep the subscribers happy by offering a lower tariff. I also feel sad sometimes when seeing some of the offers like the STD sms offer in GSM, but I would say that the right time to reach a final decision regarding quitting CDMA (from a consumers point of view) should be taken by the consumer only after the implementation of MNP. In the rarest of rare cases, even if Reliance quits CDMA space, then definitely we have other options like TATA CDMA and also MTS, which are reputed brands as well. So if u r concerned about CDMA being ditched in India, I must say there is not problem in this regard at all, and all is well.

I had immense faith in RCOM until now. But now after the step motherly treatment towards CDMA, I am going to purchase a open handset and look at options like MTS and Tata Indicom as well. Definitely I will wait till MNP is implemented. The problem is that after using the CDMA technology, I am not at all comfortable with GSM (especially the voice clarity)

RCOM is concentrating on GSM and neglecting CDMA. None of these offers are available in CDMA.

This is the limit!!!! Amazing scheme!!!

Phone looks good and also the features are a lot more than expected for the price range mentioned. But the only point of consideration should be the reliability!!!!!!!!!! How reliable are these phones??????????

Forget a world without thieves,. Very soon the telcos wil get their act together to implement newer and mdern means to loot their valuable customers!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I was playing with my RGSM mobile phone and i happened to dial *777# from my mobile. I was surprised to see a variety of options 1.VOICE PACKS 2. SMS PACKS 3. AUTO ACTIVE 4. CURRENT TARIFF 5. VAS SERVICES I entered the VOICE PACKS option and these were the sub-menus provided 1. Local R-Others call rate @50p 2. STD R-R@ 40p 3. STD R-Others @75p 4. Night calls R-R free But these submenus have not been updated appropriately. It requires repeated attempts to get into these menus because each time i got an error message, i rentered the whole procedure and was able to get into the menu and read the stuff. But due to lack of time and the patience to update all the sub-menu contents I restrain myself from updating this info. I request other rimwebians to keep updating this as soon as more information is made available by Reliance I then tried the SMS PACKS option 1. JAADU 20 Local SMS R-R @ 0.25p and R-Others @ 0.50p Accessing this menu was absolutely free and I was not charged.

Most probably it would be TATA GSM