Puneet 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 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). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anujit 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 While this is great news.... how on earth are they the 1st!!! http://www.cdg.org/technology/roaming/roaming_news.asp Also a rate chart would be very helpful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Puneet 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abc123 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 rates are as follows http://www.relianceinfo.com/Infocomm/Rim/r...dma_annex3.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anujit 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 RIM Goes Global  * Reliance Infocomm ties up with top CDMA operators in World   * 1st CDMA operator to launch International Roaming Puneet: Dude you must learn how to read. You must. You must! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abc123 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 RIM Goes Global  * Reliance Infocomm ties up with top CDMA operators in World   * 1st CDMA operator to launch International Roaming Puneet: Dude you must learn how to read. You must. You must! 38228[/snapback] You shld how to read it ........... 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anujit 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 ABC is the world's smartest guy. Recent studies have shown that ABC is the world's smartest guy amongst people with an IQ of 10 or less. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No offence dude but does that make you the world's smartest guy? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Puneet 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 1st CDMA operator to launch International Roaming in India is what really they meant, it is mentioned clearly in the first sentence. Anyway, there isn't any point in arguing over it here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SexyGurl 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 Another bad news just to add ... IT'S ONLY FOR POSTPAID. They think prepaid are too poor ... to think of carrying a reliance mobile phone all the way to USA !!! Very true: -> People who buy Rs. 149/- prepaid voucher every month are unlikely to USA .... No? But yeah, one of those prepaid guys are more likely to break into Anil Ambani's house and murder him .... postpaid are too goodie goodie to "dare" to do it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chirag 5 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 But yeah, one of those prepaid guys are more likely to break into Anil Ambani's house and murder him .... postpaid are too goodie goodie to "dare" to do it. 38244[/snapback] Whatever!! Wat i'm interested in knowing is the kind of coverage these operators provide. Is that similar to wat reliance provides here(largely city based, bad highway coverage). Whats the deal there. Claims r big for RIM as well, but as far as coverage goes, theres still lots more to be seen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abc123 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 As far as coverage with CDMA operator with other countries Sprint`s coverage in Us is very good, its one of the leading provider there Also China has very good CDMa coverage,. Newzealand its again CDMa popular market. Other countries not sure. there are lot of countries leaving european countries have CDMa networks. Lets hope so they com out wiht those also. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vb86 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2005 some time back, i did come across some text claiming that tata had tied up with syniverse to provide intl roaming on the cdma network unlike rim which used the gsm network then. ok, ive googled it for u guys: http://investor.syniverse.com/phoenix.zhtm...5219&highlight= http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/artic...3644&cat_id=613 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ashoksoft 83 Report post Posted August 20, 2005 Three Cheers for RIM!!!! What say guys ? Cheers Ashok Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
