Reliance Mobile offers BlackBerry Service for Rs. 299 per month

Mumbai, 10 June, 2009: Reliance Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) have introduced the 'Reliance E-Lite' plan for BlackBerry® smartphone users in India. With the 'Reliance E-Lite' plan, users can have unlimited access to email and instant messaging (IM) on their BlackBerry smartphones for just Rs. 299 per month.

The Reliance E-Lite service plan offers unlimited access to the industry's leading email and instant messaging features, allowing Reliance customers to access up to 10 supported POP3/IMAP email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail). Users can also view, popular attachment formats including JPEG, TIF, Microsoft® Word, Excel and Power Point® while on the move.

The 'Reliance E-Lite' service plan also enables users to have unlimited access to popular IM services like Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and BlackBerry® Messenger. The service plan is offered with all BlackBerry smartphones available from Reliance Mobile, such as BlackBerry® 8703e, BlackBerry® 8830 ,BlackBerry® CurveT 8300, BlackBerry® CurveT 8900, BlackBerry® PearlT 8110 and BlackBerry® PearlT 8130.

Mr. Vrajesh Shelat, Head- Wireless Data Business, Reliance Communications said, "It has been our constant endeavour to bring greater value to the Indian consumer. Through 'Reliance E-Lite' we will extend our reach to a wider market by providing an affordable and high quality of service to consumers who wish to primarily stay connected through email and instant messaging on their smartphones while on the move."

Ms. Frenny Bawa, Vice President India, Research In Motion said, "RIM welcomes this attractive new service plan for Reliance Communications customers in India. We continue to see strong interest from a broad range of customers in India and this new service plan will help further expand the reach the BlackBerry solution in India."

About Reliance Infrastructure Limited

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 a 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.

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 80 million including over 2 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. 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 500,000 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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