{"id":4244,"date":"2007-05-13T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/05\/calls-india-uscanada-rs-199-min\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T06:36:51","slug":"calls-india-uscanada-rs-199-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/05\/calls-india-uscanada-rs-199-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls from India to US\/Canada at Rs. 1.99 per min!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>With the coming of Reliance in the telecom and communications sector, the rates between US\/Canada and India have dropped remarkably!  They own the entire network from North America to India all the way including the undersea cables!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<!-- wml_version_starts --><span class=\"sb13\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.rediff.com\/money\/jsp\/company.jsp?companyCode=15200050\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reliance Communications<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday announced a significant drop in the calling rates to the United States and Canada on its Reliance Global Call Card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sb13\">Now subscribers will be able to call the US and Canada at just Rs 1.99 per minute using the new Reliance Global Call Card of Rs 1,900.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Making the announcement, S.P Shukla, president, personal business- Reliance Communications said, \"We are very happy to offer this revolutionary rate of just Rs 1.99 which is lower than even the STD rates of most operators.\"<\/p>\n<p> Reliance Global Cards which can be used on a Reliance Mobile and Hello \u2014 pre-paid or post-paid enable PINless dialing and are available in denominations of Rs 115, Rs 225, Rs 575, Rs 1130 and now Rs 1900 at over 200,000 retail outlets across India.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/money\/2007\/may\/12rcom.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Story Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#008;text-align:right\"><em>Powered by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Qumana<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the coming of Reliance in the telecom and communications sector, the rates between US\/Canada and India have dropped remarkably!  They own the entire network from North America to India all the way including the undersea cables!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<!-- wml_version_starts --><span class=\"sb13\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.rediff.com\/money\/jsp\/company.jsp?companyCode=15200050\" class=\"\" target=\"new\">Reliance Communications<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday announced a significant drop in the calling rates to the United States and Canada on its Reliance Global Call Card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sb13\">Now subscribers will be able to call the US and Canada at just Rs 1.99 per minute using the new Reliance Global Call Card of Rs 1,900.<\/p>\n<p> Making the announcement, S.P Shukla, president, personal business- Reliance Communications said, &quot;We are very happy to offer this revolutionary rate of just Rs 1.99 which is lower than even the STD rates of most operators.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> Reliance Global Cards which can be used on a Reliance Mobile and Hello &#8212; pre-paid or post-paid enable PINless dialing and are available in denominations of Rs 115, Rs 225, Rs 575, Rs 1130 and now Rs 1900 at over 200,000 retail outlets across India.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calls from India to US\/Canada at Rs. 1.99 per min!!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the coming of Reliance in the telecom and communications sector, the rates between US\/Canada and India have dropped remarkably! They own the entire network from North America to India all the way including the undersea cables! Reliance Communications on Saturday announced a significant drop in the calling rates to the United States and Canada on its Reliance Global Call Card.   Now subscribers will be able to call the US and Canada at just Rs 1.99 per minute using the new Reliance Global Call Card of Rs 1,900. Making the announcement, S.P Shukla, president, personal business- Reliance Communications said, &quot;We are very happy to offer this revolutionary rate of just Rs 1.99 which is lower than even the STD rates of most operators.&quot; Reliance Global Cards which can be used on a Reliance Mobile and Hello -- pre-paid or post-paid enable PINless dialing and are available in denominations of Rs 115, Rs 225, Rs 575, Rs 1130 and now Rs 1900 at over 200,000 retail outlets across India.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/05\/calls-india-uscanada-rs-199-min\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Calls from India to US\/Canada at Rs. 1.99 per min!!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the coming of Reliance in the telecom and communications sector, the rates between US\/Canada and India have dropped remarkably! 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