HTC and Reliance Communications forge strategic alliance

HTC and Reliance Communications, India's largest integrated telecom service provider, have announced a strategic alliance to promote next generation CDMA devices in India. The announcement marks HTC's foray into the fast growing CDMA market in India, and reiterates the strategic focus of Reliance Communications to offer a wider range of PDA devices on the CDMA platform for its high-end data usage customers, said the companies.

Under the alliance, HTC's CDMA handsets will be exclusively provided on Reliance Communication's wireless network providing voice, data and video communication across 15,000 towns and 600,000 Indian villages, as well as data connectivity with 100% data enabled base stations and high-speed mobile Internet access on CDMA 1X technology.

Initially, Reliance Communications will provide a choice of two HTC handset models – the HTC P3000 and the HTC S720 – which will be available by the end of March 2008 at all Reliance Mobile World and leading HTC authorized resellers across the country at a market-operating price of Rs. 16,500 (US$410) and Rs. 19,500 respectively.

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