Reliance Mobile launches text news serivice in regional languages

• Subscribers can get text news in 9 Indian languages through Samachar Service
• Focus on providing value added services in subscriber's preferred language

Mumbai, December 19, 2008: Reliance Communications, India's leading telecom service provider has announced today the launch of "Samachar" service on Reliance Mobile Phones. The service provides text news in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. The service benefits millions of subscribers of Reliance Mobile across the nation as they can know the latest news in their preferred languages at the touch of a button. The service is powered by Webdunia.com, the pioneer in Indian languages in mobile and web applications.

The launch of this service is inline with the vision of the company to provide content and services to customer in their favorite languages.

Announcing the launch of these services in Hindi, Mr. Krishna Durbha, Head - Value Added Services, Reliance Communications said, "We have been providing value added services in various Indian languages for over five years. The launch of Samachar, that's news in nine languages, will help us grow VAS usage and penetration."

To check the latest news, subscribers have to go to R World>News N TV> Samachar.

Webdunia.com :

Founded in 2000, Webdunia has a proud history of leading the language portal industry in multilingual content, product development, technological innovations and localization. Webdunia has played a commendable role in advancing language content in the country.

Webdunia is one of India's leading popular Indian languages portal available in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. With more than 80 million page views in India, Webdunia is the first Indian Language Portal that has emerged as a Web 2.0 revolution in the country by means of regional languages.

Believing in 'Think Global, Act Local', Webdunia has been able to develop some of the finest localization projects for the clients worldwide.

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 net worth in excess of Rs. 63,000 crore (US$ 14 billion), cash flows of Rs. 12,000 crore (US$ 3 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,000 crore (US$ 2 billion) and zero net debt.

Rated among "Asia's Top 5 Most Valuable Telecom Companies", Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of over 60 million including over 1.7 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies by number of customers. 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 20,000 towns and 450,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 175,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

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