New Delhi, Nov 15: Reliance today announced it would provide fully mobile services on its nationwide WLL network within 72 hours, beginning with roaming facility in seven circles including Mumbai and Delhi from tonight.
Conversion of its entire WLL services into fully mobile telephony would make Reliance Infocomm the biggest cellular operator in the country as it paid Rs 1542 crore earlier this week for acquiring single licence under new unified regime.

"Our entire WLL network will be on roaming facility in next 72 hours", Reliance spokesperson said from Mumbai. ( Will you now switch over from GSM to WLL? )

Besides Delhi and Mumbai, Reliance Infocomm has put its WLL network on roaming in parts of Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, UP (West) and Gujarat, the spokesperson said, adding that Delhi circle would also cover National Capital Region-Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Noida.

The move comes ahead of the cellular operators' petition seeking a stay on WLL services by basic operators which Supreme Court will hear on Monday.

According to Tata Indicomm officials in Delhi, the service provider has also started the process of putting its network on roaming beginning with Delhi.
Government had yesterday allowed Reliance Infocom and Tata Teleservices, who between them have paid over Rs 2000 crore, to convert their WLL services into fully mobile service by amending their existing licences to a single unified licence.


"We have amended Reliance, Tatas, Shyam Telecom and HFCL's licences into new unified one...all these players would now be governed by the final guidelines of unified licence regime," Telecom Secretary Vinod Vaish said yesterday adding that there was no need to issue a new licence to them.


When contacted Ashok Sud, Chief Regulatory Officer of Tata Teleservices said "the company has received a letter from DoT in this regard".

He said the letter mentioned that the company would no longer be governed by the old service specific licence in the existing six circles and would now be governed by the terms of new unified service licence in these circles. Bureau Report