Hyderabad, October '04: India's largest mobile services provider Reliance Infocomm has won yet another prestigious global honour - the 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Award for International Leadership.

The award, instituted by the CDMA Development Group, has been presented to Reliance Infocomm "for emerging as the largest wireless operator in India since deploying CDMA2000 in March 2003, with more than eight million customers."

Perry LaForge, Executive Director of the CDG, presented the award to Bharat Bhushan Anand, President - Regulatory Affairs, Reliance Infocomm, at the recently concluded CDMA Congress at the Miami Beach Convention Centre.

Coming as it does, the CDMA global award is in a series of honours bestowed on Reliance Infocomm:

*Company Chairman Mukesh Ambani has been voted as the "Most influential person in telecommunications in 2004" by London-based Total Telecom as part of its World Communication Awards.

*Ambani has also been honoured with the prestigious Voice & Data 'Telecom Man of The Year' Award - 2004,

*Earlier, NASSCOM has conferred the IT Excellence Award for 2004 on Reliance Industries.

Reliance Infocomm Ltd., a Reliance group company, is India's largest mobile service provider with over 9 million customers. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India, high capacity, integrated (wireless and wire-line) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain - infrastructure, services for enterprises and individuals, applications and consulting. The Reliance Group, founded by Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest business house with total revenues of over Rs 99,000 crore (US$ 22.6 billion), cash profit of Rs 12,500 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs 6,200 crore (US$ 1.4 billion) and exports of Rs 15,900 crore (US$ 3.6 billion).