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Children's Stories on Reliance Communications' Voice Portal

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Enter the world of imagination with Reliance Communications’ latest offering of Children’s stories on its voice portal. Making another fantastic addition to its bouquet of VAS service, India’s largest and only nationwide operator offering both GSM and CDMA mobile services, today announced the launch of its story portal on voice. The portal offers tales that retell some of the most popular stories, on Reliance Communications.

Through the Voice Portal, customers can listen to folk stories of the brilliant and witty court-poet of the Vijayanagara Empire - Tenali Raman, the famous Indian animal fables in Panchatantra Ki Kahaniyan, Vikram aur Betal - the spellbinding stories narrated by the wise King Vikramaditya, the epic story of Ramayan, Shri Krishna Bal Leela – narrating the childhood adventures of the charismatic Lord Krishna, Mahabharat and Tale Toon. Subscribers can also choose to set these tales as their caller tunes. 

 

Mr. Anil Pande, Head – VAS, Reliance Communications, said, “It is always a happy and delightful reflection for any individual who has been associated to these tales as a child. The essence of these stories lie in their timelessness as, even today, they can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike. We are pleased to recreate this experience on our voice portal and let them take a trip down memory lane.”

Mobile customers need to dial 51234 234 from their mobile phones to enter the wonderful world of these amazing tales at browsing charges of Rs. 3/min. Subscribers can also choose to set these tales as their caller tunes at a basic cost of Rs. 10 per tune. The portal also gives users the choice of language including English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi.

While the voice portal offers access to a lot of free content, Reliance Mobile customers can also download various services at minimal charges for various applications and services including caller tunes, ringtones, games etc.

About Reliance Communications
Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of 105 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers and nearly 3 million DTH customers, ranks among the Top 5 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 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-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 190,000 route kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

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First Published: Apr 20 2010 | 6:49 PM IST

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