Reliance Comn partners Motricity for its 3G Mobile data portal

Reliance Communication is launching a new mobile data portal for its upcoming 3G services. The portal has been powered by Motricity’s mCore platform, which is also the base for several other top telecom operators around the world including AT&T, Sprint and Verizon.

“Reliance is aggressively rolling out 3G services in India and we believe our partnership with Motricity will allow us to deliver a richer, more personalized, mobile Internet experience to our customers. Such innovations will be the cornerstone of Reliance 3G offerings going forward,” said Syed Safawi, CEO – Wireless Business, Reliance Communications.

The new mobile portal will have the following features:

• Content Aggregation: Subscribers now have access to all of the most popular content, email and social networking sites direct from their mobile device through a centralized easy-to-access destination.
• Single Sign-On: Once users personalize their view of R World, they can access all of their content, email (Gmail, Windows Live, Ovi Mail) and social networks (Facebook, Twitter) with one login, eliminating the need to re-enter different passwords and user IDs.
• News Feeds: RSS functionality allows subscribers to browse through feeds and add them to their home page, ensuring they get the most relevant news, sports and content. R World offers four categories of RSS feeds; news, sports, infotainment and finance.
• Social Networking Capabilities: Through R World, subscribers can publish status updates across multiple networks check on the status of their network friends, read and comment on posts, through a single, user-friendly interface.