• RCOM offers ‘Live Mandi Prices’ on Reliance Mobile World

• Rural folks can now track Mandis and Commodity exchanges on Reliance Mobile

• Service to benefit millions of farmers, agriculturists in rural India

• Access Real-time information on Commodities Anytime, Anywhere on Reliance Mobile World across 10,000 towns and 3 lakh villages

Reliance Communications today announced the launch of "Commodity Quotes", a unique application using which its over 35 million customers can avail of anytime, anywhere information on commodities across Commodity exchanges and mandi's in the country with a click of a button on their Reliance Mobile Phone.

The service available on India's largest Mobile content platform, Reliance Mobile World, would provide real-time information on Commodities, including Spot and Future prices, across 10,000 towns and 3 lakh villages. This service has been launched in association with www.commoditiescontrol.com, India's most comprehensive and authentic source for commodity news, information and research in the Indian market. Through an extensive network spread across markets and mandis in India and backed by domain experts, it is able to report prices across a wide variety of commodities, from castor seed to metals, onions to crude and natural gas on a real-time basis.

"The launch of 'Commodity Quotes' on Reliance Mobile World will benefit customers from small town or rural hinterland as they can keep themselves abreast with information and news on commodities, as it happens, from Exchanges and Mandi's across the country, said, Mr. Mahesh Prasad, President - Applications, Solutions and Content Group, Reliance Communications.

"With price data, information and news flowing in from more than 500 mandis across India and backed by expert insights, CommoditiesControl.com is well-poised to provide real-time information every day . By offering the same on mobile, we are in alignment with our original vision of empowering with information, cutting across geographies and classes, riding the wave of the mobile revolution, ", said Surya Mantha, Chief Executive of Web18.

The commodity information on Reliance Mobile World is easily accessible on click of a button in the 'Finance' Section- R World> Finance>>Comodty Prce. The service would be charged at a nominal rate of Rs. 3 per entry. Reliance Mobile World already offers Commodity Prices through its tie up with NCDEX and MCX. In addition to this, farmers and traders can look forward to accessing Mandi rates on the Voice Portal in the near future.

About Reliance Mobile World:
Reliance Mobile World has gained popularity as a one-stop-shop for entertainment, communication, gaming and m-commerce. Thanks to the wide range of applications it has endeared itself to users from all walks of life. Reliance Mobile World's applications include mobile TV, videos, cricket updates, music, ringtones, m-commerce, mobile mail, messaging, city and TV guides, railway reservations, banking, bill payment and examination results. Dial 1234, which is the voice interactive service of the Reliance Mobile World suite, has a bouquet of services such as Talking Message Service (TMS), My Tunes (Caller Ringback Tones), apart from the popular find-a-friend, play-a-song, ringtones, cricket and other services. Over 2,500 useful applications on Reliance Mobile World make the lives of the subscribers simple, productive and efficient.

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 a market capitalization of over Rs. 1,60,000 crore, net worth in excess of Rs. 40,000 crore, cash

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 35 million including over 1.2 million individual overseas retail customers' ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies by number of customers. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 600 Indian and 250 multinational corporations, and over 200 global carriers.

RCOM has established a pan-Indian, 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 Infocomm value chain, covering over 10,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the World's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 150,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. Reliance Communications has recently acquired ethernet service provider Yipes Holdings Inc, USA, through FLAG Telecom.

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