RCom adds 2.8 mn users

RCom adds 2.8 mn users

NEW DELHI, July 19: Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications (RCom) on Monday said it has added 2.8 million new wireless subscribers in June this year, taking its total subscriber base to 110 million.

The company added 2.8 million wireless subscribers on its GSM and CDMA platforms in the month of June, RCom said in a statement. RCom offers telephony services on both GSM and CDMA platforms.

The company has added 8.4 million new wireless customers in this quarter, the spokesperson said.

With an addition of 16.3 million new users in May, the total wireless subscribers in the country were 617.53 million at the end of May 2010, according to the sectoral regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. (PTI)

Naidu, colleagues sent to Aurangabad jail

Naidu, colleagues sent to Aurangabad jail

Nanded/Hyderabad, July 20: Amid high drama, protests by Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders and caning by the police, party chief Chandrababu Naidu and his supporters were Tuesday moved from Dharmabad in Maharashtra’s Nanded district to the Aurangabad Central Jail.

Naidu and his colleagues, who were remanded to judicial custody till July 26, will be lodged at the Aurangabad Central Jail, located in Harsul on the outskirts of the historic city, a police official said.

The leaders, including Naidu, had entered Dharmabad town, around eight kilometres from the Maharashtra-Andhra Pradesh border in Nanded district, to protest against the Babhali Barrage on the Godavari river Friday.