Reliance Communications adds a record 5 Million New Subscribers in January 2009

First Indian Telecom Operator to add 5 MN new subscribers in One Month

Reliance Mobile new subscriber additions up 285% in first month of GSM launch

Bangalore, February 13th 2009: Reliance Communications, India’s largest and only telecom operator offering nationwide CDMA and GSM mobile Services, today announced achieving a record 5 Million new wireless subscribers on its network during January 2009. With this significant achievement, Reliance Communications has become India’s first and World’s first (apart from China) to add 5 Million new subscribers in a span of 30 days, on its fully-IP enabled, Next Generation Wireless network.

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.

“Reliance Communications is indeed glad to see such a tremendous response by the Indian Telecom consumers, which has been instrumental in redefining the dynamics of the sector and achieving a record new subscriber addition of 5 Million. This significant achievement shows that almost one out of every two customers is choosing Reliance Mobile over other options”, said Mr. S.P. Shukla, President – Personal Business, Reliance Communications. “We continue to experience acceleration in the growth momentum as we keep launching our GSM services in new geographies and offering a slew of attractive recharge options to further enhance our already superior customer offerings. A response of such magnitude makes us confident of setting new benchmarks in customer service in the months to come”, he added.

Reliance Mobile announced the launch of its GSM services in January 2009 and has rolled out its services in 11000 towns and 3 lakh villages in a phased manner during the course of the month. The company has added another 3000 towns taking its GSM network to over 14,000 towns and 4 lakh villages and is on course to take its dual network – CDMA and GSM- coverage to 24000 towns and 6 lakh villages.

About Reliance Communications: Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 63,000 crore (US$ 14 billion), cash flows of Rs. 12,000 crore (US$ 3 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,000 crore (US$ 2 billion) and zero net debt.

Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 65 million including over 2 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 20,000 towns and 450,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 175,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.