Reliance 3G

RCom to Leverage on Reliance Jio’s Fiber & Tower Infrastructure

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RCom to Leverage on RJio NetworkReliance Communications Management has guided for capex investment of Rs15-20bn for FY15 following a capex-light model. They indicated that they will be receiving any additionally required fibre and tower assets from Reliance Jio through the reciprocal arrangement and will only invest in electronics.

The company has realigned its low-usage cell sites to achieve base station level profitability. This will have a temporary effect on the subscribers in those geographies; however, the company intends to use ICR (intra-circle roaming) arrangements to provide services in those areas. Management attributed the decline in the revenues of global operations to

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Reliance 3G joins hands with Aircel 3G Expands Footprint to 18 Circles

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Reliance Communications 3G services has expanded footprint across the circles of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and UP-East from June-20th. Aircel is the 3G License Holder in all the 5 circles where Reliance has started providing connections. This is potentially due to the positive stance given by the DoT for Intra-Circle roaming arrangements for 3G Data Services. Reliace 3G is already available in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Assam, North East, Jammu & Kashmir.

Reliance 3G will now be available

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Reliance Communications – ONE INDIA, ONE RATE Plan Details

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Reliance One India One Rate PlanReliance Communications has introduced a new ONE INDIA, ONE RATE plan which offers uniform Local / STD Rates across India even when you are roaming in any part of the Republic of India. Reliance GSM Mobile Users can avail the benefits of the said plan. It is not available for Reliance CDMA users.

The Details of the Plan as released to us are as follows,

One India, One Rate Rs 599 Post Paid Plan: 1,200 mina of free outgoing calls (Roaming, STD, Local; subsequent charge of 30 p/min for Roaming, STD & Local; unlimited national incoming roaming free; 2GB data and 100 SMS’ free Plan Rent of Rs 599 / Month.

One India, One Rate Rs 350 Post Paid Plan: 700 mins of free outgoing calls (Roaming, STD, Local);
subsequent

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Reliance Pre-Paid Tariff Hikes Effective – Incumbents Gain

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Reliance Pre-Paid Tariff HikeBeleaguered Integrated Telecom company, Reliance Communications’ has raised its headline voice tariff by ~6.7% to 1.6 paise/ sec (vs 1.5 paise/ sec currently). It is also increasing tariffs on discounted plans by up to 20%. eg.1) Reduced 100 mins of STD to 80 mins of STD on Rs45 voucher; 2) talk time reduced to 400 mins from 500 mins on Rs 148 voucher; 3) talk time reduced to 2,500 mins of on-net from 3,000 mins on Rs 259 voucher.

Incumbent Operators Keep the Indirect Onslaught on Consumers
Though incumbent operators have not

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Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communication Shifts Focus to Balance Sheet

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Reliance Communications Focus on FinanceVoice realizations continue to inch up across the Indian Wireless sectors due to a combination of reduced discounting and tariff hikes. Encouragingly, this increase in calling rates has thus far not resulted in any significant adverse usage elasticity.

In the prepaid segment, RCOM is following the industry and has cut discounts and raised tariffs. However, it intends to compete aggressively in the postpaid segment where it has both 3G & CDMA spectrum and can offer voice and high-speed

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Escalate Complaint against Airtel, Reliance, Vodafone, Idea by Dialing 1037

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1037 Mobile Helpline for Telecom ComplaintsDespite best efforts from the Government to regulate the Telecommunication industry with prudent billing norms, Operators like Airtel, Reliance, Idea Cellular have resorted to malpractices with their very own customers such as unauthorized mobile balance deductions by activating Value Added Services the customer has not subscribed to. The TRAI and the DoT established Internet / Web Based Complaint Cells but didn’t take off due to poor reach of broadband & the internet.

A High level committee looking into this problem just a while ago has told us that they have circulated a notification to all

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Reliance Communications Drops 3G Mobile Data Tariffs by 50%

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Reliance Communications’ Reliance 3G mobile just a while ago has informed us that their is across the board Drop in 3G mobile Data Tariffs signalling the beginning of the 3G data Tariff War. Reliance Mobile 3G Data Pack which costed Rs 250 for 1 GB of Data will not cost Rs 123. 2GB Data Pack will not Cost Rs 246 and 4GB Data Pack costs just Rs 492. The Data Tariff cuts are applicable to

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Reliance 2G GSM Intra-Circle Agreements for Coverage + 3G On handsets + CDMA EVDO Data all India

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Reliance Communications plans to expand its pan-India network significantly through strategic 2G GSM Intra-Circle roaming agreements with existing operators, offering its customers wider coverage and uninterrupted service across the country. Under this arrangement, Rcom will be able to increase its network footprint by ~10,000 base stations following ‘pay as you use model’ with no additional capex. Alliance with Aircel (pan- India) is already in place and talks with Loop in Mumbai are ongoing. Potential alliance with Loop will help provide better coverage (Loop has 900 Mhz).

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Reliance 3G Offers Unlimited Access to All Matches of ICC Champions Trophy

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Reliance 3G Cricket Launch EventReliance Communications (RCom), country’s no 4 mobile phone carrier by customers, has entered into partnership with Star Sports to offer unlimited live streaming of all ICC Champions Trophy cricket matches for 3G and prepaid GSM customers in the country.

With this partnership, Reliance customers can now avail unlimited live streaming of the matches on their smartphones by subscribing for a tournament pass of Rs 301 without paying any additional data consumption charges. Customers will also benefit from the package being inclusive of the Rs 50 subscription fee for access on www.starsports.com.

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RCom – Sending Mixed Signals

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RCOM’s strategy to pull back free minutes has impacted growth in traffic volume, but we believe this should improve going ahead. Its wireless revenue was up 2% q-q, driven by a 2% q-q increase in minutes. In comparison, Airtel and IDEA saw 5-8% q-q
minutes growth. Some 65% of the revenue mix is from GSM and mobile data, where growth is healthy, and RCOM believes it has stemmed the decline in its CDMA business. It is in the process of converting its CDMA network to data network to support higher levels of data usage.

RCOM added 2.4bn minutes in the quarter, implying 2% q-q growth. In contrast, Airtel and IDEA added 11-12bn minutes, hence recorded growth of 5-8% q-q. RPM remained flat for all the three players, although RCOM’s absolute number of 44p was ahead of Airtel’s and IDEA’s 41-42p.

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