Reliance reaches 100 million subscribers

By Poonam Singhal on 18 March, 2010, 5:28 pm

Reliance Communications (RCOM) has attained the landmark of 100 million subscribers of its mobile service. This includes both the GSM & CDMA customer base of RCOM. It is the 2^nd company in India to attain this high subscriber, after Airtel achieved it last year. It is only the 4^th largest company in the world having more than 100 million customers.

RCOM wants to double its reach to 200 million subscribers in the next 1000 days. For this, RCOM

* Plans to increase its presence in the GSM marker.

* Plans to provide better services in CDMA.

* Plans to rollout CDMA mobile broadband network, offering Internet speed up to 3.1Mbps beyond 60 cities within the next 100 days.

* Looking out for acquisitions as a part of its plans to grow.

RCOM has revolutionized mobile market in India. It announced pan-India presence in 2003, and has attained the mark of 100 million is a short time.

Reliance has also unvieled a new logo. It plans to announce a number of new initiatives. It has announced a customised “100 Million Caller Tune” will be launched as part of the 100 Million announcement.

Reliance will celebrate this memorable achievement by having a huge party on March 20^th, 2010. We are sure Hritik Roshan would also be invited to it, as he has been a major factor contributing to this achievment, by his wonderful ad.

Next in-race to attain the 100 million mark is Vodafone, which has 94.14 million subscribers, as per TRAI data for January-end. I am sure Vodafone is trying hard to achieve this landmark and will throw a party soon-after.

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