Reliance Communications and QUALCOMM Collaborate On CDMA2000 Expansion In India
MUMBAI, INDIA — July 09, 2007 — Reliance Communications, among Asia’s five most valuable telecom companies, and QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, announced their plan to grow CDMA2000® technology in India. At the same time, Reliance also announced their world leading CDMA2000 network expansion, covering more than 20,000 towns in India.
The two companies will collaborate to leverage the capabilities of the CDMA2000 technology in the world’s fastest growing telecom market. They plan to address the increasing needs of rural, urban and enterprise consumers through the introduction of even more affordable and feature-rich handsets, wireless Internet data cards and a host of exciting data applications.
Reliance’s network expansion is believed to be the world’s largest and fastest infrastructure deployment project. Once completed, this project is expected to help India meet its ambitious teledensity targets and provide telecom services across tens of thousands of Indian villages which do not enjoy any connectivity today. To address the needs of the enterprise segment, Reliance has launched Reliance Netconnect, which offers uninterrupted, anytime, anywhere wireless Internet connectivity in more than 8000 towns, three lakh villages and along major highways and railway routes in India.
????We are committed to the continued explosive growth of telecommunication services in India and with QUALCOMM our leadership in the domestic market will strengthen even further,???? said Mr. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Communications Limited. ????We remain focused on achieving ever higher levels of profitable growth, by delivering long term value to our consumers.????
????Reliance is a key driver of the fastest growing telecom market in the world, and we are pleased to enhance our long standing collaboration with them,???? said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chief executive officer of QUALCOMM. ????QUALCOMM is committed to support Reliance in its mission to grow the CDMA2000 market in India. Having jointly achieved several milestones in driving down the costs of voice telephony in India, our latest goal is to bring consumers an exciting new range of data offerings in mobile broadband, including multimedia and entertainment.????
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