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The Facebook app provides a ‘smartphone like’ experience on feature phones. It brings most of the
popular features and user experience already deployed on Facebook mobile app for smartphones to,
and is optimized for speed and performance on the Reliance Communications network. It includes
several new and unique features that enable people to stay connected through Facebook including:
• Viewing photos from your mobile phone
• Synchronizing your local address book contacts with your Facebook friends
• Facebook login to third party services within the app, such as news, sports, games, and weather
The new Facebook app is optimized to use as little data as possible while still providing a great user
experience thus making it much cheaper for regular users. The app will be available for Reliance
Communications customers to download without incurring any data charges from RWorld on their
Reliance phones by typing - http://wap.rworld.co.in.
“This agreement between Reliance Communications and Facebook will unleash the real power of Social
Networking in India. This tie-up will enable anytime anywhere access to Facebook from almost every
popular handset model currently available in India”, said Prashant Gokarn, 3G Business Head, Reliance
Communications. “Our mobile network spanning 24000 towns and 6 Lakh villages serving 97% of Indian
population will also promote access to popular social networking platforms across the length and
breadth of the country”, he added.
“We are always looking to work with innovative operators on ways to enable people to easily access
Facebook wherever they are,” said Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile Business, Facebook. “Through
our collaboration with Reliance Communications, we’re thrilled to offer yet another way for people to
stay connected with their friends and family through Facebook and bring a high quality and high speed mobile app experience to feature phones in an affordable way.”
About Facebook
Founded in February 2004, Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world
more open and connected. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in
a trusted environment. Facebook is a privately held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
About Reliance Communications
Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the
flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani
Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000
crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).
Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider.
The Company, with a customer base of over 132.2 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas
retail customers, ranks among the Top 4 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in
a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational
corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.
Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and
wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class
services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000
villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled
connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 277,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India,
USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.
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