Reliance Communications announces tie up with S Korea's SK C&C for 3G roll out

Reliance Communications today announced its partnership agreement with SK C&C India, the  affiliate company of South Korea's SK Group, that the two companies entered on 22 September 2009 to facilitate the roll-out of Reliance's 3G / 4G services.

Reliance will utilise the knowledge and expertise of SK C&C, systems service provider to SK Telecom, to build IP backbone network to process voice communication and data and develop plans to optimise the design of base stations for efficient linkage.

Under this agreement, Reliance will gain to know-how to enhance the quality of its services by building a high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wire line) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network for 3G Network and WiMax.

Founded in 1953, SK Group is the third largest conglomerate in Korea with diverse interests in information and communication, energy, trading and engineering sectors.
SK Telecom, with an over 50 per cent market share in Korea and SK C&C were world's first companies to have successfully commercialised CDMA and in 2002, became the  pioneers in deploying CDMA-based 3G services.

SK Telecom has introduced a much more advanced version of mobile telemetric services where mobile communication is combined into automobiles to provide road guidance services, location tracking as well as remote car checkup and control services, mobile-linked entertainment service.

Manish Prakash, head of international business at SK C&C (Korea), said, "At SK we are excited about this partnership with Reliance ADA Group and looking to build a deeper relationship for a wide range of cooperation in areas of technology and operations in the 3G environment. This agreement is a significant step in that direction."

In a joint press release, Reliance Communications and SK C&C said, "A  new world of communication will unfold where mobile phone users will be able to chat with their friends in remote places while looking at their faces, and also watch movies, music videos, and use the Internet to transfer money through mobile banking service. 3G mobile communication uses 2 giga hertz waves with transmission speed ranging from 128Kbps to 2Mbps enabling the users to exchange moving pictures. Also, various video contents in colour such as music video, internet broadcasting, comics, and news will be provided in real time."