Jarrett Appleby, head, Verizon joins Flag Tele

To head "� Marketing and Strategy at Reliance Communications' FLAG Telecom

Mumbai, October 4, 2006: Moving a step further on the growth plans to enhance its bouquet of offerings to emerging Next Generation Services, FLAG Telecom "� a subsidiary of India's largest integrated telecom service provider Reliance Communications, has appointed former Head "� Strategy of MCI (Verizon), Jarrett Appleby, as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Strategy and a member of the company's Executive Team.

With over 22-years of leadership experience in Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Finance and Operations, Jarrett was responsible for Strategy and Corporate Development for MCI's Next Generation Services (NGS), designated as Senior Vice President. Jarrett played a key role in MCI's strategic initiatives, including the merger of MCI with Verizon and acquisition of NetSec.

Prior to joining FLAG Telecom, Jarrett has had stints at Qwest Solutions Business as General Manager, where he built the company's solutions sales approach by integrating professional services and managed services across all sales channels. Another key assignment handled by him was with ILV Group LLC where he was the CEO and Founder for an executive business advisory services firm that provided strategic channel distribution for emerging technology companies. Jarrett holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Economics from Lehigh University, where he also earned his MBA.

Punit Garg, President FLAG Telecom, said: "I am delighted to welcome Jarrett to FLAG. He would play a significant role in next stage of FLAG's growth that would focus on Service Creation on FLAG assets. I look forward to him taking a leading role in delivering our strategic vision for creating a new face for FLAG Telecom."

FLAG Telecom has strengthened its Executive Team by appointing leading Industry professionals in line with the geographical and service expansion focus of the company. Some of the key names that have joined FLAG are Bhaskar Thyagarajan, previously with Sprint, who has joined as Vice President-Marketing and Mark Herragaty, former CEO of Cable & Wire Europe who has joined as Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

About FLAG Telecom: Worlds largest private undersea cable system spanning 65000 route kms, has an established customer base of more than 180 leading operators, including all of the top ten international carriers. FLAG owns and manages an extensive optical fibre network spanning four continents, connecting key business markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. FLAG also owns and operates a low-latency, global MPLS-based IP network, which connects most of the world's principal international Internet exchanges. FLAG offers a focused range of global products, including global bandwidth, IP, Internet, Ethernet and Co-location services. Recent news releases and further information are on FLAG Telecom's website at: www.flagtelecom.com.

About Reliance Communications: Reliance Communications is India's foremost integrated Telecommunications Company with over 25.7 million Indian and 700,000 global individual consumers. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 600 Indian and 250 multinational corporations, and - through subsidiary FLAG Telecom - over 200 global carriers.

The company has 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 Infocomm value chain. Recent news releases and further information are on Reliance Communications website at: www.reliancecommunications.co.in

About Reliance ADA Group: Among India's top three private sector business houses, with a market capitalization of Rs 100,000 crore (US$ 22 billion), net assets in excess of Rs 31,500 crore (US$ 7 billion), and net worth to the tune of Rs 27,500 crore (US$ 6 billion).

The group has a customer base of over 50 million, the largest in India, and a shareholder base of over 8 million, among the largest in the world. Through its products and services, the Reliance - ADA Group touches the life of 1 in 10 Indians every single day. The business presence of the Group extends to over 4,500 towns and 300,000 villages in India, and 5 continents across the world. The interests of the Group range from communications (Reliance Communications) and financial services (Reliance Capital Ltd), to generation, transmission and distribution of power (Reliance Energy), infrastructure and entertainment. Recent news releases and further information are on Reliance ADA Group website at: www.relianceada.com