Reliance Info ties up with Verizon for roaming in US

Reliance Infocomm, an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprise (ADAE) group company, has signed an agreement with US telephony major Verizon to offer CDMA-based roaming services to its users visiting America.

This tie-up increases Reliance's international roaming presence to 10 countries across the world that jointly hold over 90 per cent of the global CDMA footprint.

Confirming this, Reliance Infocomm head (post-paid business) Inder Bajaj said, "We have entered into an agreement with Verizon for roaming and this enables our post-paid subscribers to stay connected with their homes and the rest of the world while roaming in US. Verizon's subscribers in the US will be able to avail themselves of a similar facility while visiting India."

The roaming service was launched on Wednesday and is available to Reliance customers who use single band handsets. This is the second roaming tie-up for Reliance Infocomm in the US, the earlier being an agreement signed up with Sprint, the other CDMA operator in that country.

At present, the Anil Ambani-controlled company has tie-ups with Unicom of China, Pelephone of Israel, Telecom Mobile of New Zealand, Mobile 8 of Indonesia, Hutch in Hong Kong, ABPW of Taiwan, Telestra of Australia, Cat Telecom of Thailand and S K Telecom of Korea. Inroaming services for S K Telecom, Korea, were rolled out on December 15.