Reliance Communication and Microsoft announce partnership to offer Windows Mobile solutions

· Free data access of upto 200MB for Rs 95/month for Windows Mobile users

Mumbai, September 30, 2009: Reliance Communications & Microsoft have entered into a strategic partnership to offer Windows Mobile Solution on Reliance’s wireless networks. According to this agreement, Microsoft will offer its productivity solutions to Reliance customers including push email support, chat, photo-sharing, content back-up and other applications. The company will offer Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Solution as part of its post-paid and pre-paid offerings on its networks.

Reliance is leveraging its tie-up with Microsoft for Windows Mobile Solution by offering attractive data packages on the entire range of Windows Mobile phones. As part of the Windows Mobile solutions roll-out, Reliance Communications is introducing a special data plan offering a data download of 200MB for just Rs 95/month exclusively to Reliance Mobile customers using Windows Mobile phones. This data plan by Reliance offers double the value proposition as compared to any other product in the market.

Commenting on the tie-up, Mr Vrajesh Shelat, Head Wireless Data Business said, “Our tie-up with Microsoft is part of our overall strategy to strengthen our market share in the fast growing Smartphone segment. By offering the Windows Mobile Solution, we will be able to address a wider customer base in this segment. This special data plan for Windows Mobile for post-paid and pre-paid users on Reliance Mobile GSM and CDMA networks will ensure that price is no longer a barrier for premium data services.”

Mr. Amajit Gupta, Director – Communications and Media Segment, Microsoft India said, “This is a one of kind partnership between Reliance Communications and Microsoft that underscores the importance of the mobile software in delivering an unmatched user experience. Windows Mobile is India’s leading smartphone platform and this unique partnership will help ensure that more customers can access Windows Mobile solutions at very attractive prices.”

Reliance Communications will leverage its telecom infrastructure backbone to offer Windows Mobile service on its network. The company’s pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages.

Windows Mobile, one of India’s fastest selling smartphone OS,brings new features and tools to smartphones while maintaining unrivaled flexibility, productivity and customization. New features in Windows Mobile include support for rich HTML e-mail, increased functionality within Microsoft® Office Outlook® Mobile and Office Mobile programs, and improved security and device management for IT managers. It also delivers advanced mobile communications, increased mobile productivity and optimized mobile business performance, with a consistent and familiar Microsoft software experience.

Designed to make users more productive and access a range of online services, Windows Mobile customers also get access to more than 20,000 applications, including Microsoft My Phone that allows users to access, manage and back up their personal information on their device to a password-protected Web-based service.

About Microsoft India

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software – any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in 16 cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune.

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. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 85 million including over 2.2 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 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, directly connecting 40 countries from the East coast of the United States, to Europe, the Middle East, India, South and East Asia, through to Japan. The network seamlessly interconnects with its 190,000 route Kilometres fibre optic cables within India.