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Monday, December 13, 2010

Reliance Communication rolls out 3G

Reliance Communications on Monday formally launched 3G services in four circles, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chandigarh and expects to launch the premium service across all 13 telecom circles for which it holds licenses by the end of this fiscal year.

With the launch of 3G services, Reliance Communications becomes the first operator to offer 3G services to customers in top  metros Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata while first Tata Teleservices begin 3G services in other circles recently.

Reliance Communications president Mahesh told reporters at the launch that there would be no separate data charges and that customers will be offered bundled prepaid and postpaid plans.All the 2G and SMS tariffs will remain unchanged. The tariffs will be simple and will have daily sachet packs along with daily, weekly and monthly subscription rates for mobile TV.The charges for 3G will be affordable.But  RCom will not have video call facilities as of now as it is yet to get a formal security clearance from telecom department.

The 3G mobile broadband data pricing for 7.2 Mpbs speed has been fixed at Rs  2,599 and Reliance 3G 21 Mbps speed at Rs  4,499.For post-paid zero MB to 50 MB, the usage rate is 10p/ 10kb and above at 1p/ 10kb per month.There are small validity data packs of 25 MB for one day at Rs  20 and 125 MB oneweek packs for Rs  98, monthly plans for 100MB at Rs  100, 1GB for Rs  649 and 10GB at Rs  1,499 and 21GB at Rs  2,100.The pre- paid charges are Rs  299 data for 200 MB and Rs  699 data for 500 MB.

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