RCVL to be an index script

Reliance Communication Ventures Ltd. will be included in the benchmark index, the BSE Sensex, from June 12, just three months after the company’s listing on the bourses. RCVL’s market capitalisation as on April 29 was Rs 65,000 crore. Its net worth is Rs 11,742 crore, its net debt Rs 3,293 crore and its debt-equity ratio [...]

Reliance Data-comm

Reliance Infocomm has always touted its CDMA network’s data advantage over GSM operator’s GPRS offering. There is no doubt that Reliance’s CDMA2000 1x network is better suited for carrying data traffic than most GPRS capable networks of GSM operators in India. But here is the irony – Reliance has the right data technology but wrong [...]

Reliance trialing BlackBerry

Financial Express reports that Reliance is testing the BlackBerry push-email service for use on its networks. The two-year exclusivity agreement Research In Motion had with Bharti Televentures for BlackBerry comes to an end on March 31, 2006. In most countries, BlackBerry is available on more than one network. Worldwide, BlackBerry has partnerships with 150 carriers [...]

My lifetime is greater than yours

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had recently issued a clarification that ‘Lifetime Validity’ product should be valid till the license period of the mobile operator. Therefore the ‘Lifetime Validity’ products offered by mobile operators such as Airtel, who had received their license in 1994, are valid only till 2014. And since Reliance has a longer [...]

1 World, 1 Number

Reliance Infocomm and Tata Indicom have launched international roaming dubbed “1 World, 1 Number”, with single number on international CDMA & GSM networks. This means that when the customers of their CDMA networks are roaming on a GSM network internationally, the caller line identification of the customer would still be their CDMA number. Ok – [...]

Taking Stock

Krishnan Thiagarajan takes stock of Bharti Tele-Ventures, Reliance Communication Ventures and Hutchinson Essar from a financial markets perspective. While BTV and RCV are integrated (mobile, fixed and long distance) players, Hutchinson Essar is a mobile pure-play. Operating profit margin: Across the three companies, the sequential (quarter-on-quarter) revenue growth of the mobile business for the third [...]

Reliance facts and figures

Reuters has compiled some facts and figures about Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd., which made its stock market debut recently and was trading at Rs 322.40 on Friday. Reliance Communications is the holding company for top CDMA operator Reliance Infocomm Ltd., GSM operator Reliance Telecom Ltd., bandwidth company Flag Telecom Ltd. and Reliance Communication Infrastructure Ltd. [...]

RCoVL restructures its operating companies

In a move intended to reflect the market capitalisation of the company, Reliance Communication Ventures (RCoVL) on Sunday approved a re-organisation of the ownership structure of its operating companies. As per the closing price of Rs 301 on Friday, RCoVL’s m-cap stood at Rs 37,385 crore. Post-reorganisation, RCoVL’s m-cap will stand at Rs 61,000 crore [...]

Reliance Communications worth $8 bn on listing

Reliance Communications debuted on the stock market with an $8 billion price tag. Reliance Communications is the holding company for CDMA-operator Reliance Infocomm Ltd, GSM-services firm Reliance Telecom Ltd, bandwidth company Flag Telecom Ltd and Reliance Communication Infrastructure Ltd. Shares in Reliance Communications rose as high as 309 rupees ($6.96) on their first day of [...]

Reliance Info slashes handset costs by 40%

In a bid to further lower the entry-level for consumers, Reliance Infocomm has cut the costs of handsets by a whopping 40% for black and white instruments and 15% for the colour ones. The company is offering its base model – an LG 2340 black and white handset – for Rs 1,500, a 40-per cent [...]

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