India’s Reliance signs up 100 million subscribers

India’s Reliance Communications (RCom) said it has reached the milestone of 100 million mobile customers in India, making it the second operator after Bharti Airtel to do so. Subscribers were added through both its GSM and CDMA operations and the company now aims to sign up the next 100 million customers within the following 1,000 days.

"The landmark 100 million mobile customer base makes us the youngest telecom operator to achieve this milestone in such a short span of time,” stated Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance ADA Group, referring to accomplishing this feat within seven years of launching its first nationwide mobile service in 2003.

“Reliance Communications pioneered the mobile revolution in India and since then we have been the frontrunner of telecom innovations in the country. As we take the leap to achieve the 200 million mark, we will lead it from the front with a more customer-centric innovations and service approach."

RCom plans to rollout a CDMA mobile broadband network with Internet speeds of up to 3.1Mbps across more than 60 cities, within the next 100 days. This brings the total number of cities covered by its mobile broadband service to 125.