RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS

Reliance Communications Ltd. (commonly called RCOM) is an Indian Internet access (commonly called "broadband") and telecommunications company headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. RCOM is India's second largest telecom operator, only after Bharti Airtel. It is the 15th largest mobile phone operator with over 150 million subscribers. Established in 2004, it is a subsidiary of the Reliance Group. The company has five segments: Wireless segment includes wireless operations of the company; broadband segment includes Internet access operations of the company; Global segment include national long distance and international long distance operations of the company and the wholesale operations of its subsidiaries; Investment segment includes investment activities of the Group companies, and Other segment consists of the customer care activities and direct-to-home (DTH) activities.

BACKGROUND
It ranks among the top 5 telecommunications 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. The company established a pan-India, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 6,00,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the IP-enabled connectivity infrastructure comprising over 1,90,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

Major subsidiaries
Reliance Telecommunication Limited
Subsidiary Reliance Telecommunication Limited (RTL) operates in Gujarat,Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Assam, and the north east of India. It first offered GSM services in January 2009.

Reliance Tech Services

Reliance Tech Services is the IT services wing of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group. It provides IT consultancy, business process outsourcing and software development for Reliance Communications and other ADA group companies. It provides services to industry sectors such as telecommunications, financial services, utilities, entertainment, infrastructure, BPO operations and health care.

Reliance Globalcom
Reliance Globalcom owns the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe undersea cable system, which spanned 65,000 km in 2006. Over 110,000 km of domestic optic-fibre connects 40 markets in India, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the US

Reliance Internet Data Centre

RIDC provides Internet data centre (IDC) services located in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. Spread across 650,000 sq ft (60,000 m2) of hosting space, it offers IT infrastructure management services to large, medium and small enterprises. It is one of the leading data-centre service provider in India and provides services like colocation, managed server hosting, virtual private server and data security. It has launched cloud computing services, offering product under its infrastructure as a server (Iaas) and software as a service (Saas) portfolio, which enables enterprises, mainly small and medium, a cost-effective IT infrastructure and application on pay-per-user model.

Reliance Digital TV
Main article: Reliance Digital TV Reliance Big TV launched in August 2008 and thereafter acquired 1 million subscribers within 90 days of launch, the fastest ramp-up ever achieved by any DTH operator in the world. Reliance Big TV offers its 1.7 million customers DVD-quality pictures on over 200 channels using MPEG-4 technology.

Acquisition

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Offices

Reliance Communications Limited has its offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna and Pune.

Mobile
On 19 May 2010, the 3G spectrum auction in India ended. Reliance Communications paid rs 5864.29 crores for spectrum in 13 circles. The circles it will provide 3G in are Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, North East, Jammu & Kashmir. On 11 June 2010, the broadband wireless access (BWA) or 4G spectrum auction in India ended.

Infotel Broadband, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, won pan-India licence in the auction across 22 circles, the only telecom operator other than state-owned BSNL/MTNL to do so. Infotel paid the government 12847.77 crore for the licence. According to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) directorgeneral Rajan S. Mathews, Reliance Industries was expected to launch 4G services in December 2011. They were expected to use LTE technology. On 25 May 2012, RCom announced a price reduction of 61% on its 3G services. In 2011 Reliance provided up to 28 Mbit/s data rate in India with its MIMO technology. On 31 January 2013, Reliance announced its partnership with Lenovo to market co-branded smartphones in India. The smartphones were said to use the Android operating system and have dual-core processors.

Competitors
Reliance Communications competes with 14 other mobile operators throughout India. They are Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTNL, MTS, Ping Mobile, S Tel, Tata DoCoMo, Tata Indicom, Uninor, Videocon, Virgin Mobile (GSM & CDMA) and Vodafone.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS STATISTICS IN INDIA

India has the fastest growing telecom network in the world with its high population and development potential. Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, BSNL, Aircel, Tata Indicom, MTNL and Loop Mobile are the major operators in India. However, rural India still lacks strong infrastructure. India's public sector telecom company BSNL is the 7th largest telecom company in world. Telephony was introduced in India in 1882. The total number of telephones in the country stands at 904.56 million, while the overall teledensity has increased to 73.32% as of 31 October 2013. and the total numbers of mobile phone subscribers have reached 875.48 million as of October 2013. The mobile tele -density had increased to 70.96% in October 2013. In the wireless segment, 4.90 million subscribers were added in October 2013. The wire line segment subscriber base stood at 29.08 million. Indian telecom operators added a staggering 227.27 million wireless subscribers in the 12 months between March 2010 and March 2011 averaging at 18.94 million subscribers every month. To put this into perspective, China which currently possesses the world's largest telecommunications network added 119.2 million wireless subscribers during the same period - averaging 9.93 million subscribers every month (a

little over half the number India was adding every month). So, while India, India has been adding nearly twice as many subscribers every month until March 2011.

RELIANCE ANIL DHIRUBHAI AMBANI GROUP

Reliance industries
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is an Indian conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company operates in five major segments: exploration and production, refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and telecommunications. RIL is the second-largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization and is the second largest company in India by revenue after the state-run Indian Oil Corporation.The company is ranked #107 on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations, as of 2013. RIL contributes approximately 14% of India's total exports.

HISTORY History[edit]
1960 1980[edit]

The company was co-founded by Dhirubhai Ambani and his cousin Champaklal Damani in 1960s as Reliance Commercial Corporation. In 1965, the partnership was ended and Dhirubhai continued the polyester business of the firm.[8] In 1966, Reliance Textiles Industries Pvt Ltd was incorporated in Maharashtra. It established a synthetic fabrics mill in the same year at Naroda in Gujarat.[9] In 1975, company expanded its business into textiles, with "Vimal" becoming its major brand in later years. The company held its Initial public offering (IPO) in 1977.[10] The issue was over-subscribed by seven times.[11] In 1979, a textiles company Sidhpur Mills was amalgamated with the company.[12] In 1980, the company expanded its polyster yarn business by setting up a Polyester Filament Yarn Plant in Raigad, Maharashtra with financial and technical collaboration with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., USA.[9] 1981 2000[edit]

In 1985, the name of the company was changed from Reliance Textiles Industries Ltd. to Reliance Industries Ltd.[9] During the years 1985 to 1992, the company expanded its installed capacity for producing polyster yarn by over 145,000 tonnes per annum.[9] The Hazira petrochemical plant was commissioned in 199192.[13] In 1993, Reliance turned to the overseas capital markets for funds through a global depositary issue of Reliance Petroleum. In 1996, it became the first private sector company in India to be rated by international credit rating agencies. S&P rated BB+, stable outlook, constrained by the sovereign ceiling. Moody's rated Baa3, Investment grade, constrained by the sovereign ceiling.[14] In the year 199596, the company entered the telecom industry through a joint venture with NYNEX, USA and promoted Reliance Telecom Private Limited in India.[13] In 199899, RIL introduced packaged LPG in 15 kg cylinders under the brand name Reliance Gas.[13] During 19982000, the company completed setup of integrated petrochemical complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat.[13] 2001 Till Now[edit]

In 2001, Reliance Industries Ltd. and Reliance Petroleum Ltd. became India's two largest companies in terms of all major financial parameters.[15] In 200102, Reliance Petroleum was merged with Reliance Industries.[10] In 2002, Reliance announced India's biggest gas discovery (at the Krishna Godavari basin) in nearly three decades and one of the largest gas discoveries in the world during 2002. The in-place volume of

natural gas was in excess of 7 trillion cubic feet, equivalent to about 1.2 billion barrels of crude oil. This was the first ever discovery by an Indian private sector company.[10][16] In 200203, RIL purchased a majority stake in Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (IPCL), India's second largest petrochemicals company, from Government of India.[17] IPCL was later merged with RIL in 2008.[18][19] In the years 2005 and 2006, the company reorganized its business by demerging its investments in power generation and distribution, financial services and telecommunication services into four separate entities.[20] In 2006, Reliance entered the organised retail market in India with the launch of its retail store format under the brand name of 'Reliance Fresh'.[21][22] By the end of 2008, Reliance retail had close to 600 stores across 57 cities in India.[10] In 2010, Reliance entered Broadband services market with acquisition of Infotel Broadband Services Limited, which was the only successful bidder for panIndia fourth-generation (4G) spectrum auction held by Government of India.[23][24] In the same year, Reliance and BP announced a partnership in the oil and gas business. BP took a 30 per cent stake in 23 oil and gas production sharing contracts that Reliance operates in India, including the KG-D6 block for $7.2 billion.[25] Reliance also formed a 50:50 joint venture with BP for sourcing and marketing of gas in India.