RIM to offer unique starter kit

Reliance Infocomm, the telecom service operators using CDMA technology, has developed a product, Get Started Kit (GSK), which will give its subscribers the flexibility to choose from a wide range of handsets available in the open market, select mobile phone numbers of one's choice and get them activated.

This is the first time that a CDMA operator is providing the flexibility for customers to choose handsets of his/her choice. World over, CDMA operators provide handsets with pre-activated numbers. The new kit will be available for both pre-paid as well as post-paid subscribers.

S P Shukla, president for wireless products and services of Reliance Infocomm, said: "The GSK has been indigenously developed at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in association with various global handset suppliers. Now, customers can enjoy the flexibility of buying any Reliance-ready handset in the open market."

Shukla said handsets can also be purchased from the second-hand markets. "Of late, many RIM subscribers have begun to upgrade their handsets. So a huge stock of used handsets is available in the second-hand market," he said.