Reliance Info ties up with Verizon

Reliance Infocomm, an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprise group company, has signed an agreement with US telephony major Verizon to offer CDMA-based roaming services to its users visiting America.

This tie-up increases Reliance's international roaming presence to 10 countries across the world that jointly hold over 90 per cent of the global CDMA footprint.

Confirming this, Reliance Infocomm head (post-paid business) Inder Bajaj said, "We have entered into an agreement with Verizon for roaming and this enables our post-paid subscribers to stay connected with their homes and the rest of the world while roaming in US. Verizon's subscribers in the US will be able to avail themselves of a similar facility while visiting India."

The roaming service was launched on Wednesday and is available to Reliance customers who use single band handsets.

This is the second roaming tie-up for Reliance Infocomm in the US, the earlier being an agreement signed up with Sprint, the other CDMA operator in that country.

At present, the Anil Ambani-controlled company has tie-ups with Unicom of China, Pelephone of Israel, Telecom Mobile of New Zealand, Mobile 8 of Indonesia, Hutch in Hong Kong, ABPW of Taiwan, Telestra of Australia, Cat Telecom of Thailand and S K Telecom of Korea.

Roaming services for S K Telecom, Korea, were rolled out on December 15.