The “new” Reliance Communications (RCOM) will be “capex light” and emerge as India’s largest B2B (business-to-business) entity that is “focussed on the global and enterprise business”, according to Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani.
It will also have a “strong strategic partner coming in the next few months”, Ambani said in a wide-ranging interview to The Economic Times, his first in a decade. “New RCOM will be stronger and be India’s largest B2B business. It is capex light and we are very conservatively structured… The IDC (international data centres) business is set to explode. There is huge opportunity — and as opportunity for India grows with $400 billion in reserves and good ratings, we will grow as well,” Ambani said.
This statement was made around a critical time when a lot of assumptions are getting made around the Indian telecom vertical.