Reliance Communications slashes ILD rates

New Delhi, July 19: India's largest telecom service provider, Reliance Communications, today slashed international call rates by upto 66 per cent, enabling customers to call all numbers in the US, Canada and SE Asia at Rs 4.50 per minute.

The new tariffs, which are amongst the lowest in the country and would be available on Reliance Global Call card across all denominations, would entail thatb calls to the UK on landline and mobiles will now cost Rs 6 and Rs 8 per minute respectively, while all calls to Gulf countries will cost only Rs 8 per minute.

Calls to Australia and New Zealand are lowered to Rs 6 from Rs 18.

''We are committed to offer convenient and affordable connectivity solutions to our customers. Innovative, domestic and overseas tariffs have been Reliance Communications' key growth driver,'' Reliance Communications Wireless President S P Shukla said.

With the Reliance Global Call Card, subscribers will have flexible options of using it on Reliance Mobile or Reliance Hello phones, prepaid as well as postpaid. The card offers the convenience of PIN-less dialing and customers do not need to pay any security deposit for availing ILD facilities.

Reliance Communications has over 22.5 million Indian and 500,000 global individual consumers.

UNI