Reliance Communications partners with F-Secure to ensure safe surfing for broadband consumers
Indian broadband service provider shows way forward with fresh thinking in data security provision
Helsinki, Finland - April 6, 2006 -- Today F-Secure Corporation and Reliance Communications announce a partnership deal in India to provide data security services for Reliance Communications customers. F-Secure will provide its F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers - a solution that allows ISPs to offer their residential and small office customers a complete, award-winning security solution that protects their computer day and night against viruses, external attacks, harmful content and spam. With Service Platform for Consumers, Reliance Communications can now offer safe Internet experience for their fast growing broadband customer base.
Reliance Communications is the leading Broadband service provider in India to partner with F-Secure and offer security as a value added service integrating the offering into monthly Internet package. This represents a pioneering step in the field of security service offering, overstepping the usual limitations of retail security products.
Speaking about the deal, Mr Prakash Bajpai, President Broadband business, Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd., said: We are delighted to have F Secures security solution. With dependence on computers at an all-time high in our personal and professional lives, there is a need for a fail-proof security solution that guarantees the customer peace of mind.
Risto Siilasmaa, President and CEO of F-Secure said: I am delighted to acknowledge our partnership with Reliance Communications a company that has shown great forward thinking in the manner it approaches its customers, particularly in the matter of data security provision. Their innovative approach and high ambition to become the largest broadband provider in India are values which we strongly support and by offering superior data security services to their customers we hope to bolster their continued success.
F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers is available in two packages: Reliance PC Protect Basic and Family Packs. These packages include a combination of anti-virus, antispyware, firewall, parental control and spam control.
About Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd.
Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd. is the flagship company of Reliance--Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, India's largest private information and communications services provider with over 19 million subscribers. Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain.
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security services in the market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of our response. According to independent studies in 2004 and 2005 our response time to new threats is significantly faster than our major competitors. Our award-winning solutions are available for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions, as well as network control solutions for Internet Service Providers. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly listed competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, and we have regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also available as a service through major ISPs, such as Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, PCCW and Charter Communications. F-Secure is the global market leader in mobile phone protection provided through mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia. The latest real-time virus threat scenario news are available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
Source: F-Secure
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