Reliance Infocomm has signed an agreement with US telephony major Verizon to offer CDMA-based roaming services to users visiting the US.

Reliance Infocomm has signed an agreement with US telephony major Verizon to offer CDMA-based roaming services to users visiting the US. Verizon’s US subscribers will also be able to roam while visiting India. This tie-up increases Reliance’s international roaming presence to 10 countries that jointly hold over 90 per cent of the global CDMA footprint. The roaming service is available to Reliance customers who use single-band handsets.

This is the second roaming tie-up for Reliance Infocomm in the US, the earlier being an agreement signed with Sprint, another CDMA operator. State-run Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has signed an MoU with RelianceInfocomm to provide a cable link between the two countries through the Wagah border. This is the first time that Pakistan has looked to have a direct telecom link with India. Last year, Indian companies were not allowed to participate in the bidding process for privatisation of PTCL. Pakistan has shown interest in an optic fibre cable telecom link with India, ever since internet services were disrupted across the country last year due to the snapping of an international undersea cable.