Reliance Infocomm to go global soon

Reliance Infocomm will go global as soon as its operations in India stabilise, top company sources said. The company launched operations in the country in May 2003 and has drummed up more than 6 million customers till date.

Though there was much to be done in India, the company is keeping an eye on all global licences being offered in the market. If the scale of operations is large and will develop the company's business in the way the India operations had, Reliance would bid for the licence, sources added.

The company is not interested in picking up stakes in minor operations unlike some of its competitors in the market. The effort of running a circle of a few lakhs was almost as much as one with many million customers and Reliance was in the millions league, sources said.

Sources said the company will retain its focus on large format deals such as group connections with major companies with a large employee and dealer-partner network. These deals, like one done with Hindustan Lever earlier, will help sign up thousands if not lakhs of connections at one go.

The business will focus on best cost solution for its business. Reliance may have picked up Flag Telecom but this did not mean Reliance Infocomm was committed to do business with it unless it gave the best rate in the market, according to sources.

The company is less than a year old and the vision is to be one of the top ten telecom service providers in the world, S P Shukla, president of the company's wireless products and services business group, said after launch of the company's pre-paid product.