Reliance Communications believes that its 3G rollout, as far as the 13 circles where it won rights to spectrum, is complete, covering 333 towns. Any further expansion, the company said, will come by virtue of an intracircle roaming arrangement with "like minded operators". RCOM had 2 million 3G subscribers (up from 1.7 million last quarter), across mobile data and data cards, at the end of the quarter ending June 30th 2011 (Q1-FY12). Executives on the RCOM earnings conference call held yesterday said that much more is needed to be done to evolve in the devices ecosystem for 3G: handsets are currently at Rs 4000,and they'll need to come down to Rs 2000-2500. By the end of this quarter, RCOM expects to have expanded its high speed data network to 900 towns, up from 65 towns a year ago. It also claims to have a 1x data experience in 20,000 towns. "Non voice", the company said, contributes almost 20% of its wireless revenues, is among the highest in the country. Some developments on the 3G non-voice front: - Launched Our Apps last quarter, a Reliance branded applications store, with over 50,000 apps and games, with try and buy options. - Launched a new version of the RWorld store, making it more user friendly. - Will launch a video on demand application, which will render across various devices such as handsets, tablets PCs etc. RCOM executives also clarified that the Reliance 3G Tablet, with Android 2.3, priced at less than Rs 13000,…
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