Rs 1,000 Bonus Talktime On New Handsets, Colour handset @ Rs2799 from RIM

Colour handset @ Rs2799 from Reliance Infocomm
Rs 1,000 bonus talktime on new handsets
Media Release
DAKC (Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City), Navi Mumbai, July 12, 2005

With Reliance Infocomm announcing a bonus talk time of Rs 1,000 on purchase of new handsets across the country, effectively, a new colour handset will now be available at Rs 2,799.

The price for some popular black-and-white handsets would work out to Rs999.

For prepaid subscribers, the bonus talk time that is valid for 90 days from the date of purchase can be consumed for making calls to Reliance IndiaMobiles. It is open for all new handsets activated between July 10 and 31, 2005.

On postpaid tariff plans, it will be credited to the monthly bills at the rate of Rs 200 a month for five months. The bonus could be consumed for making calls to both Reliance IndiaMobile and Fixed Wireless Phone and the offer will be effective from July 9 to August 09, 2005.

As the company expands its subscriber base, the company is looking to spread the fruits of mobile revolution and excitement of owning a colour handset.

The LG 5130, for instance, has unique features such as a speakerphone and Hindi interface to facilitate SMS in the national language, multimedia capabilities, and a screen large enough to support video clips, games, wallpapers and other such multimedia applications available on R World. The phone also doubles up as a wireless modem to provide access to the Internet anywhere, anytime with R Connect service.

Reliance Infocomm Ltd., an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group company, is India's largest private information and communications services provider, with a subscriber base of over 12 million. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain.

The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group, is a member of the Reliance Group, founded by Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002).