RELIANCE INFOCOMM
Reliance Infocomm (RIC) is India's largest mobile service provider with over 7 million customers. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain - infrastructure, services for enterprises and individuals, applications and consulting.
Reliance Infocomm has licenses to offer telecom services in 20 circles under the Unified Access license. In addition, it has received the Letter of Intent for the J&K circle. This has enabled RIC to offer services across the length and breadth of India's vast geography through its next generation fibre optic network backbone spanning 60,000 route kms. RIC is currently offering its wireless services in 1,100 towns and cities across India.
RIC commercially launched its services in May 2003 and within the first 7 months emerged as India's largest mobile service operator. As of the end of March 2004, RIC had almost 7 million subscribers. Most of this was in the postpaid segment as RIC launched its pre-paid services only in February 2004. Within this period the Reliance IndiaMobile brand emerged as the most trusted telecom brand in the country. (Source: A.C. Nielson, ORG - MARG).
RIC also offered for the first time in India high-speed mobile data services though its R-World mobile portal. This portal leverages the high-speed data capability of the next generation CDMA 1X network. It provides 70 applications such as news, astrology, T.V. guides, and movie clips etc. and 35 games and logs more than 1 billion hits a month.
RIC is aggressively expanding the reach of its network in order to reach more subscribers by extending its services to cover an additional 3,800 towns. It is estimated that the mobile market in India will grow to 140 million subscribers by FY 2008. RIC expects to retain market leadership in this segment.
The second phase of the Infocomm project will usher a Broadband revolution by providing 100 mbps Ethernet links to its corporate customers. This revolution will empower the enterprise by making transactions efficient, functions seamless and new economic opportunities abundant. The enterprise broadband service is in the process of being rolled out in 30 towns and would then be extended to cover 200 towns in phases. The services planned include POTS (Plain Old Telephone Lines), Leased lines, International Private Leased Circuits, Virtual Private Network, Video Phone, Audio and Video Conferencing, among others.
RIC will also launch a consumer convergence revolution by providing high speed Ethernet links to homes. This revolution, called "Netway", will provide homes with a range of television channels, high-speed telephony, audio conferencing, video conferencing, video on demand, Juke box, time shifted TV, T-commerce, and Surveillance services. All content and interfaces will be enabled to cater to India's diverse languages. These services would be accessed through a set top box connected to a TV or a PC.
The set top box is a versatile access device with an in-built hard disk for storing content of customer's choice.
In January 2004, Reliance Infocomm (RIC) acquired 100 per cent of the undersea cable company, FLAG Telecom for US$ 211 million through Reliance Gateway Net Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of RIC. This acquisition provides RIC with an international gateway to global markets. The FLAG acquisition also makes RIC the only Indian operator to own an international undersea cable network with a truly global footprint.
FLAG Telecom is a leading global telecom company providing an innovative range of products and services to the international carrier community, ASPs and ISPs. It has over 180 customers, which include a number of the world's leading international carriers. FLAG connects 16 of the world's top 20 business centers and 75 per cent of the world's population through its 55,000 km fibre optic network.
In February 2004, FLAG announced that it would build FALCON, a new high-capacity resilient loop cable system providing multiple landings throughout the Gulf region, with submarine links stretching to Egypt in the west and to Hong Kong in the east.
CHAIRMANS'S PROFILE
Anil D. Ambani
Shri Anil D. Ambanis aged 46 years, Chairman of Reliance Capital, Reliance Infocomm and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy Limited. He was the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited. Reliance group is India's largest business house, founded by late Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002).
Shri Ambani is a Bachelor of Science, University of Bombay and MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
He joined Reliance in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer. He is credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets. He pioneered India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. He directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991,around US$2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in January 1997 being the high point. He has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, power, and telecom player. He is a Member of Wharton Board of Overseers, The Wharton School, USA.
Birthplace : Mumbai, India
Date of Birth : June 4, 1959
Father's Name : Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani
Mother's Name : Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani
Education:
Bachelor of Science, University of Bombay
MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Career:
Joined Reliance in 1983 as co-Chief Executive Officer. Credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets.
Pioneered India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depository receipts, convertibles and bonds.
Directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991, around US$ 2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in January 1997 being the high point.
With an investment of over Rs 36,000 crore (US$ 9 billion) in petroleum refining, petrochemicals, power generation, telecommunication services and a port terminal in a three-year time frame, has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles-petroleum-petrochemicals-power-infocom-telecom player.
Member:
Wharton Board of Overseers, The Wharton School, USA.
Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission.
Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Achievements:
Adjudged as the CEO of the Year at the prestigious Platts Global Energy Awards for 2004.
Polled as India's most admired Chief Executive for 2004, for the sixth year in succession, in the Business Barons (India's leading business magazine) - Taylor Nelson Sofres - Mode Survey; and ranked at the top in 3 out of 4 qualities: leadership, integrity and vision.
Ranked No.1 for the second consecutive year, in The Power List 2004 published by India Today, March 2004.
Voted 'MTV Youth Icon of the Year', September 2003.
Conferred 'The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award' by the Bombay Management Association, October 2002.
Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001.
Named amongst 'The Power 50 - India's 50 most powerful decision-makers in Politics, Business & Finance', Business Barons, August 1999.
Selected by Asiaweek magazine for its list of 'Leaders of the Millennium in Business and Finance' and was introduced as the only 'new hero' in Business and Finance from India, June 1999.
Leading business magazine Business Barons included him in its list of 'India's 25 Most Influential Business and Financial Leaders', June 1998.
Conferred the 'Businessman of the Year 1997' award by India's leading business magazine Business India, December 1997.
Marital Status:
Reliance Infocomm (RIC) is India's largest mobile service provider with over 7 million customers. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain - infrastructure, services for enterprises and individuals, applications and consulting.
Reliance Infocomm has licenses to offer telecom services in 20 circles under the Unified Access license. In addition, it has received the Letter of Intent for the J&K circle. This has enabled RIC to offer services across the length and breadth of India's vast geography through its next generation fibre optic network backbone spanning 60,000 route kms. RIC is currently offering its wireless services in 1,100 towns and cities across India.
RIC commercially launched its services in May 2003 and within the first 7 months emerged as India's largest mobile service operator. As of the end of March 2004, RIC had almost 7 million subscribers. Most of this was in the postpaid segment as RIC launched its pre-paid services only in February 2004. Within this period the Reliance IndiaMobile brand emerged as the most trusted telecom brand in the country. (Source: A.C. Nielson, ORG - MARG).
RIC also offered for the first time in India high-speed mobile data services though its R-World mobile portal. This portal leverages the high-speed data capability of the next generation CDMA 1X network. It provides 70 applications such as news, astrology, T.V. guides, and movie clips etc. and 35 games and logs more than 1 billion hits a month.
RIC is aggressively expanding the reach of its network in order to reach more subscribers by extending its services to cover an additional 3,800 towns. It is estimated that the mobile market in India will grow to 140 million subscribers by FY 2008. RIC expects to retain market leadership in this segment.
The second phase of the Infocomm project will usher a Broadband revolution by providing 100 mbps Ethernet links to its corporate customers. This revolution will empower the enterprise by making transactions efficient, functions seamless and new economic opportunities abundant. The enterprise broadband service is in the process of being rolled out in 30 towns and would then be extended to cover 200 towns in phases. The services planned include POTS (Plain Old Telephone Lines), Leased lines, International Private Leased Circuits, Virtual Private Network, Video Phone, Audio and Video Conferencing, among others.
RIC will also launch a consumer convergence revolution by providing high speed Ethernet links to homes. This revolution, called "Netway", will provide homes with a range of television channels, high-speed telephony, audio conferencing, video conferencing, video on demand, Juke box, time shifted TV, T-commerce, and Surveillance services. All content and interfaces will be enabled to cater to India's diverse languages. These services would be accessed through a set top box connected to a TV or a PC.
The set top box is a versatile access device with an in-built hard disk for storing content of customer's choice.
In January 2004, Reliance Infocomm (RIC) acquired 100 per cent of the undersea cable company, FLAG Telecom for US$ 211 million through Reliance Gateway Net Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of RIC. This acquisition provides RIC with an international gateway to global markets. The FLAG acquisition also makes RIC the only Indian operator to own an international undersea cable network with a truly global footprint.
FLAG Telecom is a leading global telecom company providing an innovative range of products and services to the international carrier community, ASPs and ISPs. It has over 180 customers, which include a number of the world's leading international carriers. FLAG connects 16 of the world's top 20 business centers and 75 per cent of the world's population through its 55,000 km fibre optic network.
In February 2004, FLAG announced that it would build FALCON, a new high-capacity resilient loop cable system providing multiple landings throughout the Gulf region, with submarine links stretching to Egypt in the west and to Hong Kong in the east.
CHAIRMANS'S PROFILE
Anil D. Ambani
Shri Anil D. Ambanis aged 46 years, Chairman of Reliance Capital, Reliance Infocomm and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy Limited. He was the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited. Reliance group is India's largest business house, founded by late Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002).
Shri Ambani is a Bachelor of Science, University of Bombay and MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
He joined Reliance in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer. He is credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets. He pioneered India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. He directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991,around US$2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in January 1997 being the high point. He has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, power, and telecom player. He is a Member of Wharton Board of Overseers, The Wharton School, USA.
Birthplace : Mumbai, India
Date of Birth : June 4, 1959
Father's Name : Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani
Mother's Name : Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani
Education:
Bachelor of Science, University of Bombay
MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Career:
Joined Reliance in 1983 as co-Chief Executive Officer. Credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets.
Pioneered India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depository receipts, convertibles and bonds.
Directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991, around US$ 2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in January 1997 being the high point.
With an investment of over Rs 36,000 crore (US$ 9 billion) in petroleum refining, petrochemicals, power generation, telecommunication services and a port terminal in a three-year time frame, has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles-petroleum-petrochemicals-power-infocom-telecom player.
Member:
Wharton Board of Overseers, The Wharton School, USA.
Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission.
Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Achievements:
Adjudged as the CEO of the Year at the prestigious Platts Global Energy Awards for 2004.
Polled as India's most admired Chief Executive for 2004, for the sixth year in succession, in the Business Barons (India's leading business magazine) - Taylor Nelson Sofres - Mode Survey; and ranked at the top in 3 out of 4 qualities: leadership, integrity and vision.
Ranked No.1 for the second consecutive year, in The Power List 2004 published by India Today, March 2004.
Voted 'MTV Youth Icon of the Year', September 2003.
Conferred 'The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award' by the Bombay Management Association, October 2002.
Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001.
Named amongst 'The Power 50 - India's 50 most powerful decision-makers in Politics, Business & Finance', Business Barons, August 1999.
Selected by Asiaweek magazine for its list of 'Leaders of the Millennium in Business and Finance' and was introduced as the only 'new hero' in Business and Finance from India, June 1999.
Leading business magazine Business Barons included him in its list of 'India's 25 Most Influential Business and Financial Leaders', June 1998.
Conferred the 'Businessman of the Year 1997' award by India's leading business magazine Business India, December 1997.
Marital Status:
Married to Tina, and has two sons, Jai Anmol and Jai Anshul.
Business Address:
Reliance Infocomm Limited,
I Block, 2nd Floor,
Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City,
Navi Mumbai - 400710, India
Telephone:
+91 22 3037 5522, +91 22 3037 5534
Fax:
+91 22 3037 5577
E-mail:
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