Reliance Communications adds a record 3.3 million wireless customers in February 2009

· Adds largest number of new mobile customers for second consecutive month

Mumbai, March 13th 2009: Reliance Communications, India’s first operator to offer nationwide CDMA and GSM mobile services, today announced adding a record 3.38 million new customers during February 2009, on its next-generation wireless network. For the second consecutive month, Reliance Mobile has emerged as India’s largest and most preferred telecom operator in terms of new subscriber additions. Reliance Communications had announced the commercial launch of its nationwide GSM services in January 2009.

“The true barometer to gauge superiority of a product / service is customer receptiveness and response. We are glad to experience such an overwhelming response from millions of customers that has resulted in Reliance Mobile emerging as the largest selling mobile telephony brand in the country”, said Mr. S.P. Shukla, President – Wireless Business, Reliance Communications. “The continued acceleration in growth momentum makes us confident of further enhancing our leadership position and consistently emerge as India’s most preferred mobile service provider in the months to come”, he added.

Reliance Communications wireless network provides fully-Digital Voice and High Speed Data Services across 20,000 towns and 6 lakh villages across the country, covering over 95% of Indian population.

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.