Reliance Communications designated as ‘Global Partner’ for the 5th edition of ICC World Twenty20 tournament to be held in Bangladesh

Reliance Communications designated as ‘Global Partner’ for the 5^th edition of ICC World Twenty20 tournament to be held in Bangladesh

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Mumbai, March 07, 2014:  Reliance Communications Limited, India’s fully integrated telecommunications service provider, today announced their association as ‘Global Partner’ for the 5th edition of ICC World Twenty20 tournament to be held in Bangladesh. Reliance Communications has always been associated as a ‘Global Partner’ for ICC events since the first ICC World Twenty20 in 2007.

Reliance Communications also announced a series of service offerings for its customers for the forthcoming ICC World T20 Bangladesh 2014 as a part of the partnership for the 5th edition of the tournament that is scheduled to begin in March 16 – April 6, 2014.). Cricket fans will get exclusive glimpse of the trophy and an opportunity to click photographs with it. They can also send best wishes to the team and participate in varied contests specially designed for this event and win exciting prizes.

Commenting on this partnership Mr. Gurdeep Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Business, Reliance Communications Limited, said, “As a ‘Global Partner’ of ICC until 2015, we are proud to be associated with the most popular game in the country which also has been growing in popularity worldwide. We at Reliance understand the passion for Cricket that binds cricket enthusiasts across the globe and would like to enhance our customers’ experience through exclusive mobile content ranging from high quality video clips of the matches, wallpapers, themes, live audio commentary, score updates, animations, ringtones, CRBT, mobile quiz contest and predictions amongst others”.

This event in Mumbai was a part of exclusive preview road shows across India before the tournament kicks off in Bangladesh. The ICC World T20 Bangladesh 2014 Trophy will be handed over to the winning team of this tournament which is currently in its 5th edition.

About the Trophy & Logo

The coveted trophy is designed and created by Links of London and is made of Silver & Rhodium and weighing approximately 7.5 Kgs.

The Logo for the ICC World Twenty20 is inspired by the unique painted rickshaws (tuk-tuks) which pack the streets of Bangladesh cities. The logo uses the colors of Bangladesh flag with splashes of blue which represents Bangladesh’s iconic waterways. The T is made up of cricket stumps and the 0 in the T20 represents the cricket ball complete with Bangladeshi green seam, while the white in the design lends and energetic, friendly and youthful feel to the logo. The Logo is designed by Whitekite in Australia.

About Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Group. The Reliance Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 89,600 crore (US$ 16.5 billion), cash flows of Rs. 9,100 crore (US$ 1.7 billion), net profit of Rs. 4,300 crore (US$ 0.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of about 126 million including over 2.5 million

individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 7 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes over 39,000 Indian and multinational corporations including small and medium enterprises and over 830 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.