Reliance Communictions Launches International Data Roaming To The Us

[Arun 795]

October 21, 2007

Press Trust of India - Mumbai

Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications has become the first Indian telecom company to launch international data roaming that would provide Internet connectivity to its consumers in their laptops and computers through their mobile phones while travelling in the US.

An agreement was signed by Reliance Communications with US telecom major Verizon for this purpose last week, company's President S P Shukla told PTI here.

"We are the first CDMA operator in India to offer data roaming facilities to travellers to the US. They can now seamlessly connect for making calls, checking e-mails or even surfing the net," he said.

RCom introduced international voice roaming two years ago to the US and its charges are 67 per cent lower than other telecom operators who provide this facility on mobile phones using GSM technology.

Shukla said after the US, the company proposed to launch this international data roaming facility in Canada, followed by Latin America and then to Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, China and other countries which used CDMA technology for their mobile phone services.