RCom raises price of its tariff vouchers significantly

Reliance Communications has hiked prices of some of its special tariff vouchers (STV) significantly (over 20%). For example, a STV of Rs46 is now offering 140minutes of on-net minutes vs. 200minutes earlier. This is the second major tariff hike by RCom in the last 6 months. Earlier, in Sep’12 RCom increased the base tariff of … Read more

Reliance Communication New Business Strategy

Reliance Communications unveiled its new business strategy for the new Financial Year 2013-14. RCom will focus on gaining incremental market share, optimizing its network, improving customer experience – particularly for data customers, optimizing cost structure, and improving branding. Management thinks that pricing power is back with larger telcos as smaller telcos are struggling given rising … Read more

Will Reliance Communication Survive the Telecom Shakeout ?

Reliance Communications is set to benefit from the overall improving sector dynamics, as ARPMs, data volumes rise, competitive intensity reduces and capex under control. There is still a lot of time for spectrum renewal for Rcom, with only 7 circles coming up for renewal in Dec 2015, and others thereafter. Moreover, the excess spectrum charges … Read more

Reliance Communications’ Tariff Hikes in Feb-2013

Along with incumbent GSM Lobby comprising of Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Reliance Communications has carefully hiked voice call tariffs in selected circles and not across India. The following chart shows the Tariff hikes by Reliance Communications in Feb-2013. What do you think of RCom’s Mobile QoS ? is it poor that it is unable to … Read more