One has to love fiber, and especially companies that have bought cheap fiber networks and are putting them to effective use. Take Reliance as an example. It built a local and wireless network in India. Then it bought FLAG Telecom. Then it came to US and asked all “Not Really Indians” to sign-up for a service called, Reliance IndiaCall. It was pretty simple, if you had family with Reliance Telecom cell phone, land lines or fixed wireless phone, well you could call them for 11.9¢ / minute. Last week, VSNL bought TYCO’s network, Reliance counter attacked and now has a new price: 9.9¢ / minute. I love this idea… I have been paying nearly 80 cents a minute to call mom… and now well I can be admonished and its would cost me a dollars.

3 comments so far
8:09 PM PT
Dude the link to RIC is wrong it should be
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Also 9.9 cents is only if you call to a Reliance Phone. It is going to be 12.9 from Nov 17 on all other phones. Right now they have a lot of customers like me who started with the promotional rate of 11.9 cents and are now hooked to it.
Pankaj
7:48 AM PT
It’s still a great deal at 12.9c/min! This may date me, but I can still remember the days when a call to Bomaby cost five dollars per minute!!!
6:07 PM PT