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Reliance Communications Limited

Type Public

BSE: 532712

Industry Telecommunications

Founded 2004

Founder(s) Dhirubhai Ambani

Headquarters Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Area served India

Key people Anil Ambani

(Chairman)

Satish Seth

(MD)

Products Wireless

Telephone
 Internet

Television

Data Cards

Recharge Vouchers

VC

Revenue 22,948 crore (US$ 4.98 billion)(2009)

Operating income 9,305 crore (US$ 2.02 billion)(2009)

Net income 6,045 crore (US$ 1.31 billion)(2009)

Total assets 102,207 crore (US$ 22.18 billion)(2009)

Total equity 1,032 crore (US$ 223.94 million)(2009)

Employees 31,884 (2009)

Parent Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Subsidiaries Reliance Telecom Limited

Reliance Globalcom Limited

Reliance Tech Services

Reliance Communications Infrastructure

Limited (RCIL)

Reliance Big TV Limited

Reliance Infratel Limited

Website Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications (BSE: 532712), formerly known as Reliance Infocomm, along with
Reliance Telecom and Flag Telecom, is part of Reliance Communications Ventures (RCoVL).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. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore
(US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).The Equity Shares of RCOM are listed
on Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and National Stock Exchange Limited. The Global Depository
Receipts and Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds are listed on Luxembourg Stock
Exchange and Singapore Stock Exchange respectively.
 Contents
[hide]

• 1 Company Overview

• 2 Main Subsidiaries

○ 2.1 Reliance Telecommunication Limited (RTL)

○ 2.2 Reliance Globalcom

○ 2.3 Reliance Communications Infrastructure

Limited (RCIL)

○ 2.4 Reliance Big TV Limited

○ 2.5 Reliance Infratel Limited(RITL)

• 3 Offices

• 4 Subscriber Base

• 5 Notable awards

• 6 References

[edit]Company Overview

Reliance Communications is India's truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company
has a customer base of 105 million[1] including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers. It ranks
among the Top 5 Telecom companies [2] 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. 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 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages has
been established by Reliance Communications. Reliance Communications owns and operates the next
generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure<,ref>"The world's largest next generation IP enabled
connectivity infrastructure".Retrieved 2010-04-14.</ref> comprising over 190,000 kilometers of fiber
optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

[edit]Main Subsidiaries
[edit]Reliance Telecommunication Limited (RTL)

In July 2007, the company announced it is buying US-based managed ethernet and application delivery
services company Yipes Enterprise Services for a cash amount of Rs. 1200 crore rupees (equivalent of
USD 300 million). The deal was announced of the overseas acquisition, the Reliance group has
amalgamated the United States-based Flag Telecom for $210 million [roughly Rs 950 crore (Rs 9.50
billion)].RTL operates in Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Assam, Kolkata
and Northeast offering GSM services.[3]

[edit]Reliance Globalcom

RGL owns the worlds largest private undersea cable system[4] spanning 65,000 km seamlessly integrated
with Reliance Communications over 110,000 km of domestic optic fiber provides a robust Global Service
Delivery Platform connecting 40 key business markets in India, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

[edit]Reliance Communications Infrastructure Limited (RCIL)

RCIL provide Internet Data Centre (IDC) services located in Mumbai and Bangalore. RCIL currently has
IDC capacity of 304,000 sq ft with the market share close to 60%.

[edit]Reliance Big TV Limited

Reliance Big Tv launched in August 2008[5] and thereafter acquired 1 million subscribers within 90 days of
launch,[6] 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 across a bouquet of over 200 channels using the latest, state-of-
the-art MPEG 4 technology.

[edit]Reliance Infratel Limited(RITL)

RITL’s business is to build, own and operate telecommunication towers, optic fiber cable assets and related
assets at designated sites and to provide these passive telecommunication infrastructure assets on a
shared basis to wireless service providers and other communications service providers under long-term
contracts.

[edit]Offices

Reliance Communications Limited has its offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai,
Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, New Delhi, Patna & Pune.

[edit]Subscriber Base

The Reliance Communication subscriber base according to COAI - Cellular Operators Association of India
is over 105mn :

GSM Broadband CDMA DTH

Circle Post Prep Circle Prep Circle

Data Voice Circle Post Prep Total
Name Paid aid Name aid Name
Name Paid aid
PCO

Andhra 18909 Andhra 18909 Andhra 20911

6182 6182
Pradesh 23 Pradesh 23 Andhra 2505 44543 4769 Pradesh 8
Pradesh 97 41 90
 1917 20543 1917 20543 5057 32118 1147 Bihar 41245
Delhi Delhi Delhi
2 93 2 93 24 75 02

Chattisg
28965
1941 24806 1941 24806 2884 29921 1152 arh
Gujarat Gujarat Gujarat
4 42 4 42 80 65 98

Delhi 73148
90182 90182 2007 20546 1252
Kerala 8049 Kerala 8049 Kerala
9 9 96 01 14
10901
Gujarat
3
1857 21681 1857 21681 2362 30249 2538
Karnataka Karnataka Karnataka
2 31 2 31 88 54 48
Haryana 65358

Maharashtr 2528 33013 Maharashtr 2528 33013 Maharashtr 2955 34573 2750
a & Goa 8 89 a & Goa 8 89 a & Goa 34 29 02
Himacha
l 25822
Pradesh
2488 20831 2488 20831 Madhya
Mumbai Mumbai 1878 44951 1395
4 75 4 75 Pradesh &
60 63 75
Orissa
Jammu
& 28643
Punjab,Har Punjab,Har Kashmir
yana & 1863 27173 yana & 1863 27173 5551 32232 1668
Mumbai
Himachal 0 75 Himachal 0 75 20 11 58
Pradesh Pradesh
Jharkhan
21060
d
Punjab,Har
26289 26289 yana & 1984 25699 9261
Rajasthan 6631 Rajasthan 6631
40 40 Himachal 97 98 1
Pradesh Karnata 30900
ka 7

Tamil Tamil
2570 19096 2570 19096
Nadu & Nadu & 1512 22846 9670
4 41 4 41 Rajasthan 17117
Andaman Andaman 60 51 4 Kerala
9

Not 1366 34565 Not 1366 34565 Tamil

3048 38548 3749 Maharas
Defined 36 8 Defined 36 8 Nadu & 25836
61 39 00 htra &
Andaman 5
Goa

Uttar 64309 Uttar 64309

9093 9093
Pradesh 45 Pradesh 45 Uttar 2706 79760 2654
Pradesh 27 83 94 Madhya
78525
Pradesh

West West
8765 22154 8765 22154
Bengal Bengal West
Bengal,Bih 2409 66060 2039 Mumbai 96609
ar & 46 50 19
Jharkhand
RCOM 29262215 RCOM 29262215
GSM - GSM - North 28518
Total sub Total sub RCOM East
base base CDMA -
56592965
Total sub
base
Orissa 79011

RTL
Rajastha 17766
n 7
Circle Post Prepa
Name Paid id
Tamil 20869
Nadu 2
1149 17499
Assam
42 92
Uttar
12443
Pradesh
0
Bihar & (W)
41525
Jharkhan 7482
77
d
Uttar
11505
Pradesh
8
20760 (E)
Calcutta 5524
28

West
44280
Himachal 99949 Bengal
2344
Pradesh 3

DTH -
Madhya Total 23349
Pradesh sub 96
5591 49135 base
&
1 90
Chhattisg
arh

North- 2145 52051

East 4 3

1268 22170
Orissa
4 43

West 32125
2481
Bengal 10

RCOM
RTL -
20064568
Total
sub base
[edit]Notable awards
 Anil Ambani – The Telecom Person of the Year 2008 by Light Reading[7]

 Most Promising Service Provider of 2003 (Asia Pacific) Award instituted by

Asia Pacific Technology from Frost & Sullivan

 RCOM adjudged the World’s Top CDMA Operator at the Global CDMA
Industry Achievement Awards

 Reliance Mobile amongst the "Top 10 Most Trusted Brands“ & rated as
"India's Most Trusted Service Brand 2009“ by The Economic Times

 Reliance Mobile" voted as No. 8th in "India's Most Admired Marketers“.

The youngest Indian brand amongst the "Top 10" and ahead
of P&G, Hero Honda, Samsung, LG, Colgate and Cadbury's.

 Reliance Mobile, India's Top 25 Marketers Awards 2009, Pitch, November

9

 Mobile Marketing Award(Los Angeles) at Global level for cross-media

integration on digital and mobile medium of Reliance GSM

launch campaign (Go For It!).

 Best Advert game award conferred by World Brand Congress for digital
advertising game hosted on Zapak.com

 CMOs Council Brand Leadership Award to Reliance Communications,

November 2009

 World Brand Congress, Chair for Yr. 2009-10 granted to RCOM,

November 2009

 Business Today along with TAM rated Simply Reliance TVC as the most
watched Ad in the month of October 2009.

 Total Network TVC's Kedarnath & Highway rated as No.1 campaign in

India for the month of August 2008 & September 2008

 Most awarded single brand for Creative Excellence ABBY Awards 2007
(Advertising Agency Association of India)
[edit]References

1. ^ "Reliance Communications has more than 50 million

customers".Retrieved 2010-04-14.

2. ^ "Top 5 Telecom companies in the world ".Retrieved 2010-04-14.

 3. ^ "TRTL operates in Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh,
Orissa, Bihar, Assam, Kolkata, and Northeast offering GSM

services".Retrieved 2010-04-14.

4. ^ "Reliance Communications' FLAG Telecom Announces FLAG NGN".

Retrieved 2010-04-14.

5. ^ "Big TV launched in August 2008". Retrieved 2010-04-14.

6. ^ "BIG TV crosses 1 Million Subscriber Mark Within The 90 Days of

Launch". Retrieved 2010-04-14.

7. ^ "Anil D. Ambani, Chairman awarded Person of the Year". Retrieved

2010-04-14.
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