Articles tagged with: Reliance Communications and CDMA
India's Reliance Seeks 100 Million Subscribers by Year-End
India's Reliance Communications has set itself a target of breaking the 100 million subscriber mark before the end of this year - requiring an additional 25 million new customers to sign up to its network. The firm reported a surge in subscriptions following the launch of its GSM network, which overlays its existing CDMA service. more
Related Tags: rcom, telenor, docomo, mts, tim, reliance, gsm, India
Reliance Communications Debt Ratings Affirmed at LAAA
Indian debt ratings agency, ICRA has assigned a long-term rating of LAAA each to the Rs. 30 billion Non-Convertible Debenture (NCD) Programme and the Rs. 100 billion proposed Long-Term Fund-Based Facilities of Reliance Communications (RCOM). Further, ICRA has reaffirmed the LAAA rating assigned earlier to the Rs. 201.56 billion Long-Term Fund Based/Non-Fund Based Limits of RCOM. more
Related Tags: itu, rcom, reliance, gsm, icra, debt-ratings, passive-infrastructure, reliance-infratel, presence, India
RCom adds a record 5 million New subscribers in January 2009
India's Reliance Communications, a dual CDMA and GSM operator, says that it signed up a record 5 million new wireless subscribers on its network during January 2009. The entry of Reliance Mobile in the GSM segment has once again led to a significant expansion of the market, with the company seeing a significant 285% rise in new subscriber additions, within the first month of its nationwide GSM rollout. more
Related Tags: itu, personal, reliance, gsm, villages, India
India's RCom Launching its Nationwide GSM Network
India's Reliance Communications has announced that it will, over the next few days, launch a nationwide GSM/EDGE network. The launch covering 1 billion people in 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages is by far the widest one-time network launch. more
Related Tags: edge, reliance, maharashtra, gsm, villages, India
Asia-Pacific Continues to be the Strongest Region for CDMA
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region once again leads the global CDMA ecosystem in terms of subscribers, revenue and service creation. As APAC operators continue to develop and enhance their core 3G CDMA networks, CDMA2000 subscribership in the region remains the largest in the world and operators in the region are seeing some of the highest wireless data revenues in the industry. more
Related Tags: indosat, arpu, pccw, china-telecom, core-network, mobile-broadband, lg, reliance, citycell, telkom, cdma-development-group, cdma2000, cdg, 1xev-do, smart-telecom, ev-do
India's RCom - Higher than average usage fails to produce premium ARPU
Reliance Communications has recorded a record quarter, in terms of new connections, adding 5.3m to its base to take the total to 56.0m. Proportionately, it grew by 10.35% over the quarter and 54.3% over the year. These are impressive numbers, but they are also little better than average - the Indian market as a whole grew by 10.03% and 51.2% respectively, while the market leader, Bharti, managed 11.7% and 58.5%. more
Related Tags: sms, arpu, vodafone, reliance, bharti, India
France Telecom Hits it Off with Ugandan Discussions
France Telecom has taken over the national GSM license held by Hits Telecom Uganda and said that it plans to launch a new joint venture company operating under the Orange brand in the coming months. more
Related Tags: orange, wi-fi, wimax, mtn, alcatel-lucent, zain, reliance, landline, gsm-license, telkom, uganda-communications-commission, i-tel, Uganda
RCom Soft-Launches GSM Network in Indian Cities
India's Reliance Communications (RCom) has soft-launched its GSM network in several major cities across the country, with a commercial launch expected within the next couple of months. The service has been launched with employees only - in the cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab Bangalore and Chennai. more
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India's GSM Operators Lose Legal Battle Against CDMA Firms
India's High Court in Delhi has rejected a petition by the GSM network operators to block the government from allowing the incumbent CDMA operators from offering GSM services. The GSM operators had told the court that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) was trying to pass-off a second license to each of the CDMA operators for free. more
Related Tags: sistema, reliance, radio-spectrum, delhi, coai, India
