RCOM Unveils ‘TalkLoan’ Facility to Ensure Uninterrupted Calling, Surfing for its Customers

- Low-on-balance users can dial *141# and get instant ‘talk-time loans’

- TalkLoan available at values of Rs 5, Rs10—for voice and data usage

- Customers can avail of TalkLoan service if balance falls below Rs 10

Reliance Communications, India’s fully-integrated telecom service provider, today announced the launch of an innovative TalkLoan service for its pre-paid GSM customers. With the TalkLoan service, customers with a low pre-paid account balance can simply dial *141# (toll-free) and get an instant ‘TalkLoan’ recharge, which can be used for both voice and data services.

The service, which has been launched after a keen study of usage behavioral analysis, will offer significant benefits to customers who sometimes cannot make important or urgent calls due to insufficient balance. The TalkLoan service will provide RCOM’s pre-paid GSM customers with an instant loan of Rs 5 or Rs 10, which can be availed of when the balance dips below Rs 10. Once the customer dials *141#, he/she can select the denomination of the instant recharge and start using the phone for voice and data services immediately—in essence, the TalkLoan service allows all Reliance GSM pre-paid customers to keep talking and surfing without being disconnected.

The talk-time given through the TalkLoan loan facility does not have any validity, and customers can use it anytime they want. The ‘loan amount’ will be recovered by the Company over subsequent recharges, with a nominal transaction fee.

Announcing the launch of the TalkLoan service, Mr Gurdeep Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Business, Reliance Communications Limited, said: “TalkLoan is an innovative solution which will provide great convenience to our customers, assuring them of uninterrupted voice and data usage. With this service, RCOM’s customers can virtually not run out of balance at any time. This service will further cement our strong ties and connect with our pre-paid customer base.”

This service will be extremely useful when the customer is running out of balance at odd hours or in any emergency, or he/she is between recharges, or when a physical recharge is not possible.

About Reliance Communications:

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Group. The Reliance Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 91,500 crore (US$ 15.3 billion), cash flows of Rs.10,200 crore (US$ 1.7 billion), net profit of Rs. 4,700 crore (US$ 0.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company has a customer base of over 118 million, including over 2.6 million individual overseas retail customers. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes over 39,000 Indian and multinational corporations including small and medium enterprises and over 290 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-in-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 21,000 cities and towns and over 400,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largestnext generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 280,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, the Middle-East and the Asia-Pacific region.

For further information, please contact:

Rajeev Narayan

Reliance Communications

Mobile: +91 9310414119

E-mail: rajeev.narayan@relianceada.com

Kumar Abhijeet

Reliance Communications

Mobile: +91 80880334332

E mail: kumar.abhijeet@relianceada.com