Reliance Communications plans to use CDMA spectrum mainly for providing wireless internet services to increase revenues and migrate its predominantly voice customers to GSM technology platform.
"The intent is to reduce dependence of pure play CDMA voice customers. The customers who don't use data, we will be migrating them to GSM spectrum and will free up spectrum for more and more data usage," Reliance Communications CEO for wireless business Gurdeep Singh said on Friday.
He said the company has formed its strategy defined around spectrum and is looking to convert CDMA spectrum for high speed wireless internet services.
"GSM and data (internet services) put together are driving our growth. GSM and data revenue now contribute 64 per cent to our wireless revenue, up from 57 per cent a year ago. We want to populate that network (CDMA) with dongles and CDMA smartphones," he said.
He added that the company has tied-up with Lenovo for CDMA smartphones and is in discussions with more vendors to launch CDMA handsets.
Reliance Communications said its non-voice services contributed around 21 per cent to its total revenue. It had 29.4 million mobile internet users during the March quarter.
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