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RCOM Q2-FY13 Earnings Call: On Raising Tariffs; Data Focus & More

On its quarterly results conference call, Reliance communications mostly focused on the growth in its data business. In its results, it claimed 4.8 million active 3G users, and 26 million data (2g + 3g) users. Read about the results here. Gurpreet Singh, CEO of wireless business, informed that the company has 26 million data customers and that its 3G user base grew by 20% QoQ, with total data usage on the network touching 17400 terrabyte, and average  usage at 232 MB, which he claimed was highest in industry. As indicated in the previous quarter, the company feels that the next big opportunity is from data and that RCOM was continuing with a data focused strategy for growth. RCOM continues to provide wireless broadband in 1300 top towns including 313 towns in 3G and 1000 towns in high speed data networks, and Edge and 1X data in all circles. There was some concern on how India was the only country where voice share was 70%, but the company was banking on content and application development, and low smartphone prices for growth. It also talked about its partnership with WhatsApp, and said that it will continue to partner other players for similar initiatives.  - Raised tariffs & Postpaid strategy: The company raised tariffs by 25% across 3G and CDMA networks, and said that the full impact of the move onthe company's revenue would be seen by early next year. It launched new family plans in Postapaid segment and reduced postpaid tariffs by upto 40% in some plans. The company…

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