Reliance Communications Ltd.

(commonly called RCOM) is an Indian Internet access (commonly called "broadband") and telecommunications company headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. RCOM is India's second largest telecom operator, only after Bharti Airtel. It is the 15th largest mobile phone operator with over 150 million subscribers. Established in 2004, it is a subsidiary of the Reliance Group. The company has five segments: Wireless segment includes wireless operations of the company; broadband segment includes Internet access operations of the company; Global segment include national long distance and international long distance operations of the company and the wholesale operations of its subsidiaries; Investment segment includes investment activities of the Group companies, and Other segment consists of the customer care activities and direct-to-home (DTH) activities.

Major subsidiaries
Reliance Telecommunication Limited
Subsidiary Reliance Telecommunication Limited (RTL) operates in Gujarat,Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Assam, and the north east of India. It first offered GSM services in January 2009.[3]

Reliance Tech Services

Reliance Tech Services is the IT services wing of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group. It provides IT consultancy, business process outsourcing and software development for Reliance Communications and other ADA group companies. It provides services to industry sectors such as telecommunications, financial services, utilities, entertainment, infrastructure, BPO[clarification needed] operations and health care.

Reliance Globalcom
Reliance Globalcom owns the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe undersea cable system, which spanned 65,000 km in 2006.[4] Over 110,000 km of domestic optic-fibre connects 40 markets in India, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the US

Mobile
On 19 May 2010, the 3G spectrum auction in India ended. Reliance Communications paid 5864.29 crores for spectrum in 13 circles. The circles it will provide 3G in are Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, North East, Jammu & Kashmir.[8] On 11 June 2010, the broadband wireless access (BWA) or 4G spectrum auction in India ended. Infotel Broadband, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries,[9] won pan-India licence in the auction across 22 circles, the only telecom operator other than state-owned BSNL/MTNL to do so.[10] Infotel paid the government 12847.77 crore for the licence.

According to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) director-general Rajan S. Mathews, Reliance Industries was expected to launch 4G services in December 2011.[11] They were expected to use LTE technology. On 25 May 2012, RCom announced a price reduction of 61% on its 3G services.[12] In 2011 Reliance provided up to 28 Mbit/s data rate in India with its MIMO technology.[13] On 31 January 2013, Reliance announced its partnership with Lenovo to market co-branded smartphones in India.[14] The smartphones were said to use the Android operating system and have dual-core processors.[14]

Competitors
Reliance Communications competes with 14 other mobile operators throughout India. They are Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTNL, MTS, Ping Mobile, S Tel, Tata DoCoMo, Tata Indicom, Uninor, Videocon, Virgin Mobile (GSM & CDMA) and Vodafone.

Advantages
Whether it is dedicated circuits, private switching arrangements or pre-defined transmission paths virtual or physical Reliance International Private Leased Circuits offer you eight exclusive advantages that gives your company a competitive edge. Advantage # 1: fully owned infrastructure Reliance is the only telecom carrier that has a wholly-owned global sub-sea cable network with a presence in over 27 countries, as well as 24-hour proactive network monitoring and support. Advantage # 2: Reliability Reliances IPLC service is one of the most reliable submarine cable networks. More important, it is very well supported by Reliance's extensive domestic network. Advantage # 3: One Stop Shop (OSS) An End-to-End link with Single-End-Provisioning and Single-End-Billing:

Domestic link including the last mile in India and in the foreign country with our carrier partner. Our fully-owned circuit between the international PoP in India and the designated PoP at the international end. Dedicated teams for implementation and support in India and the US.

Advantage # 4: Affordable World-class Services Reliance has tie-ups with top international carriers that give it a global reach and enable it to

offer international quality SLA-level service standards, giving the customer world-class services at highly competitive and affordable prices. Advantage # 5: Choice of currency Complete flexibility in currency for payments INR, USD or Euros, or even a combination of Indian and foreign currencies Advantage # 6: Scalability Reliance offers highly scalable solutions for its IPL service, as there are no barriers for upgrading the capacity of circuits or provisioning multiple circuits. Connectivity capacity can be scaled up at very short notice, enabling our customers to quickly react to their business needs. Advantage # 7: QoS with SLAs We offer a very high Quality of Service (QoS), backed by service level commitments. Since Reliance uses an integrated network for its End-to-End services, there are greatly fewer points of failure in the network, and our end-customers get a very high quality service. Our cutting edge technology translates into exceptional network reliability and service availability. Advantage # 8: More Security We offer complete redundancy through diverse paths on the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific routes.