RELIANCE GROUP

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (ADA) Group is a conglomerate company headed by Anil Ambani and is among India’s top 3 private sector business houses, with a market capitalization of US$ 81 billion, net assets US$ 29 billion. [1] The companies under the group are: [2]


 Reliance BIG Entertainment

o Internet & New Media

 BIGFlix.com

 BIGADDA.com

 Zapak

 Jump Games

 BIG Pictures

 Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Adlabs)

 Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Lowry Digital)

 BIG Cinemas

 BIG Animation

 BIG Music & Video

 BIG ND Studio

 BIG Synergy

 BIGOYE.com

o Broadcasting

 BIG 92.7 FM

 BIG Broadcasting

o Others

 BIG Street

 BIG Live

 BIG Reach

 BIG Events



 Reliance Capital

o Reliance Capital

o Reliance Life Insurance

o Reliance General Insurance

o Reliance Mutual Fund

o Reliance Money

o Reliance Consumer Finance

o Reliance Asset Reconstruction

 Reliance Communications

o Reliance Globalcom

o Reliance BPO

 Reliance Infrastructure

 Reliance Power

 Reliance Health

 Reliance Natural Resources Limited

 Reliance Technology Ventures

 DA-IICT

The group was formed after the 2 feuding brothers Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, split Reliance Industries.

It has 8 million shareholders, making it one of the world's most widely held stock.

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Reliance Communications Limited



Type

Public

BSE: 532712


Industry

Telecommunications


Founded 2004

Founder(s)

Dhirubhai Ambani


Headquarters Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India


Area served India

Key people Anil Ambani

(Chairman)

Satish Seth

(MD)


Products

Wireless

Telephone

Internet

Television

Data Cards

Recharge Vouchers

VC

Revenue

Rs 22,948 crore (US$ 4.98 billion) (2009)


Operating income

Rs 9,305 crore (US$ 2.02 billion) (2009)


Net income

Rs 6,045 crore (US$ 1.31 billion) (2009)


Total assets

Rs 102,207 crore (US$ 22.18 billion) (2009)

Total equity

Rs. 1,032 crore (US$ 223.94 million) (2009)

Employees

31,884 (2009)

Parent

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group


Subsidiaries

Reliance Telecom Limited

Reliance Globalcom Limited

Reliance Tech Services

Reliance Communications Infrastructure Limited (RCIL)

Reliance Big TV Limited

Reliance Infratel Limited


Website

Reliance Communications


Reliance Communications (BSE: 532712), formerly known as Reliance Infocomm, along with Reliance Telecom and Flag Telecom, is part of Reliance Communications Ventures (RCoVL).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. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).The Equity Shares of RCOM are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and National Stock Exchange Limited. The Global Depository Receipts and Foreign Currency Reliance Communications is India's truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company has a customer base of 105 million[1] including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers. It ranks among the Top 5 Telecom companies [2] 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. 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 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages has been established by Reliance Communications. Reliance Communications owns and operates the next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure<,ref>"The world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure".Retrieved 2010-04-14. comprising over 190,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.Convertible Bonds are listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Singapore Stock Exchange respectively.

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Company Overview

Main Subsidiaries

Reliance Telecommunication Limited (RTL)

In July 2007, the company announced it is buying US-based managed ethernet and application delivery services company Yipes Enterprise Services for a cash amount of Rs. 1200 crore rupees (equivalent of USD 300 million). The deal was announced of the overseas acquisition, the Reliance group has amalgamated the United States-based Flag Telecom for $210 million [roughly Rs 950 crore (Rs 9.50 billion)].RTL operates in Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Assam, Kolkata and Northeast offering GSM services.[3]



Reliance Globalcom

RGL owns the worlds largest private undersea cable system[4] spanning 65,000 km seamlessly integrated with Reliance Communications over 110,000 km of domestic optic fiber provides a robust Global Service Delivery Platform connecting 40 key business markets in India, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

[edit] Reliance Communications Infrastructure Limited (RCIL)

RCIL provide Internet Data Centre (IDC) services located in Mumbai and Bangalore. RCIL currently has IDC capacity of 304,000 sq ft with the market share close to 60%.

[edit] Reliance Big TV Limited

Reliance Big Tv launched in August 2008[5] and thereafter acquired 1 million subscribers within 90 days of launch,[6] the fastest ramp-up ever achieved by any DTH operator in the world. Reliance Big TV offers its 1.7 million customers DVD quality pictures across a bouquet of over 200 channels using the latest, state-of-the-art MPEG 4 technology.

Reliance Infratel Limited(RITL)

RITL’s business is to build, own and operate telecommunication towers, optic fiber cable assets and related assets at designated sites and to provide these passive telecommunication infrastructure assets on a shared basis to wireless service providers and other communications service providers under long-term contracts.

Offices

Reliance Communications Limited has its offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, New Delhi, Patna & Pune.

Subscriber Base

The Reliance Communication subscriber base according to COAI - Cellular Operators Association of India is over 105mn :

GSM

Circle Name Post Paid Prepaid

Andhra Pradesh 6182 1890923

Delhi 19172 2054393

Gujarat 19414 2480642

Kerala 8049 901829

Karnataka 18572 2168131

Maharashtra & Goa 25288 3301389

Mumbai 24884 2083175

Punjab,Haryana & Himachal Pradesh 18630 2717375

Rajasthan 6631 2628940

Tamil Nadu & Andaman 25704 1909641

Not Defined 136636 345658

Uttar Pradesh 9093 6430945

West Bengal 8765 22154

RCOM GSM - Total sub base 29262215

Broadband

Circle Name Data Voice

Andhra Pradesh 6182 1890923

Delhi 19172 2054393

Gujarat 19414 2480642

Kerala 8049 901829

Karnataka 18572 2168131

Maharashtra & Goa 25288 3301389

Mumbai 24884 2083175

Punjab,Haryana & Himachal Pradesh 18630 2717375

Rajasthan 6631 2628940

Tamil Nadu & Andaman 25704 1909641

Not Defined 136636 345658

Uttar Pradesh 9093 6430945

West Bengal 8765 22154

RCOM GSM - Total sub base 29262215

RTL

Circle Name Post Paid Prepaid

Assam 114942 1749992

Bihar & Jharkhand 7482 4152577

Calcutta 5524 2076028

Himachal Pradesh 2344 999493

Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh 55911 4913590

North-East 21454 520513

Orissa 12684 2217043

West Bengal 2481 3212510

RCOM RTL - Total sub base 20064568



CDMA

Circle Name Post Paid Prepaid Prepaid PCO

Andhra Pradesh 250597 4454341 476990

Delhi 505724 3211875 114702

Gujarat 288480 2992165 115298

Kerala 200796 2054601 125214

Karnataka 236288 3024954 253848

Maharashtra & Goa 295534 3457329 275002

Madhya Pradesh & Orissa 187860 4495163 139575

Mumbai 555120 3223211 166858

Punjab,Haryana & Himachal Pradesh 198497 2569998 92611

Rajasthan 151260 2284651 96704

Tamil Nadu & Andaman 304861 3854839 374900

Uttar Pradesh 270627 7976083 265494

West Bengal,Bihar & Jharkhand 240946 6606050 203919

RCOM CDMA - Total sub base 56592965

DTH

Circle Name Total

Andhra Pradesh 209118

Bihar 41245

Chattisgarh 28965

Delhi 73148

Gujarat 109013

Haryana 65358

Himachal Pradesh 25822

Jammu & Kashmir 28643

Jharkhand 21060

Karnataka 309007

Kerala 171179

Maharashtra & Goa 258365

Madhya Pradesh 78525

Mumbai 96609

North East 28518

Orissa 79011

Rajasthan 177667

Tamil Nadu 208692

Uttar Pradesh (W) 124430

Uttar Pradesh (E) 115058

West Bengal 44280

DTH - Total sub base 2334996



Notable awards

• Anil Ambani – The Telecom Person of the Year 2008 by Light Reading[7]

• Most Promising Service Provider of 2003 (Asia Pacific) Award instituted by Asia Pacific Technology from Frost & Sullivan

• RCOM adjudged the World’s Top CDMA Operator at the Global CDMA Industry Achievement Awards

• Reliance Mobile amongst the "Top 10 Most Trusted Brands“ & rated as "India's Most Trusted Service Brand 2009“ by The Economic Times

• Reliance Mobile" voted as No. 8th in "India's Most Admired Marketers“. The youngest Indian brand amongst the "Top 10" and ahead of P&G, Hero Honda, Samsung, LG, Colgate and Cadbury's.

• Reliance Mobile, India's Top 25 Marketers Awards 2009, Pitch, November 9

• Mobile Marketing Award(Los Angeles) at Global level for cross-media integration on digital and mobile medium of Reliance GSM

launch campaign (Go For It!).

• Best Advert game award conferred by World Brand Congress for digital advertising game hosted on Zapak.com

• CMOs Council Brand Leadership Award to Reliance Communications, November 2009

• World Brand Congress, Chair for Yr. 2009-10 granted to RCOM, November 2009

• Business Today along with TAM rated Simply Reliance TVC as the most watched Ad in the month of October 2009.

• Total Network TVC's Kedarnath & Highway rated as No.1 campaign in India for the month of August 2008 & September 2008

• Most awarded single brand for Creative Excellence ABBY Awards 2007 (Advertising Agency Association of India)