Reliance Communications Limited (RCom) is an Indian telecommunications company headquartered in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. Part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (Reliance ADA Group), the company historically provided wireless, wireline, broadband, enterprise, and submarine cable services across India and overseas markets. Once among India's largest mobile operators, RCom wound down its wireless consumer business in late 2017 and subsequently entered insolvency proceedings.
| Type | Public company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Headquarters | Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Parent group | Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group |
| Chairman | Anil Ambani |
| Listings | BSE, NSE |
| Key subsidiary | Reliance Globalcom (Global Cloud Xchange) |
Reliance Communications traces its origins to the telecom initiatives launched by the Reliance group under Dhirubhai Ambani, with mobile services rolled out in the early 2000s under the Reliance Infocomm brand. Following the demerger of the Reliance group between brothers Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani in 2005, the telecom business was placed under the Reliance ADA Group and subsequently rebranded as Reliance Communications.
The company built one of the country's earliest large-scale CDMA networks and later added GSM services. Through its international arm, Reliance Globalcom (operating as Global Cloud Xchange), it owned and operated one of the world's largest privately held submarine cable systems, including the FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) network acquired in 2004.
Reliance Communications played a defining role in India's mobile revolution of the 2000s, particularly through aggressive pricing of handsets and tariffs that helped expand mobile access beyond metropolitan markets. Its later financial distress, debt restructuring, and insolvency proceedings became one of the most prominent cases in the Indian telecom sector, reflecting the broader consolidation that followed the entry of Reliance Jio in 2016.