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To: Ruffian who wrote (110632)	1/10/2002 12:29:37 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Respond to of 152472

Ruffian: Still, Reliance, whose telecom business at present is limited to cellular phone services using GSM technology in six provinces besides the northeastern Indian states with a total 334,319 subscribers as of December last year, is pushing ahead with its plans after it outlined its ambition of re-entering the business on a larger scale in June 2000..... ......Separately, Reliance is building a 60,000-kilometer (37,290- mile) fiber optic cable network for voice, data and Internet traffic at a cost of $5.3 billion that will link 115 Indian cities. It had finished 18,000 kilometers by the end of June last year. The network will act as the backbone for the group's domestic and overseas long-distance and cellular phone services..... So, Reliance has around 6% of the present 5.4 million mobile sub base in India, is presently using GSM, but will deploy CDMA 1x for its WLL service, shooting for 5.1 million WLL users by the end of 2002 (per Reliance), and 35 million in three years (per KTF). Reliance is also building the fiber optic backbone to link major metro areas. Wonder how long Reliance will stick with GSM for its full mobile service, and if a widescale CDMA full mobile deployment is in its future? David T.