Reliance rolls out services to 6 lakh rural customers
24 Mar 2007
New Delhi: Reliance Communications has announced having rolled out service to six lakh subscribers till March 2007 under the universal service obligation fund (USOF) aimed at increased penetration of telephone services in rural India.
A statement from the company quotes Sanjeev Govil, head, national rural marketing, Reliance Communications, "Reliance Communications has provided telephone connections to 40,000 villages hitherto devoid of any phones under this particular programme. We are able to give impetus to the government''s rural initiative.".
The company has taken initiatives through special offers and subsidized call rates for reaching out to its customers in these areas, the statement said.
Reliance
Communications had signed an agreement with the Department
of Telecommunications two years ago which enables it to
receive subsidies for providing telephone connection to
every subscriber in the rural areas.
