BSE Quotes Live On RIM Handsets

Televisionpoint.com Team
Reliance Infocomm has tied-up with the Bombay Stock Exchange to make available live stock quotes on its mobile phones. The information would be available on R World, Reliance India Mobile’s multimedia application suite. The move is significant, as it will allow millions of investors in thousands of places including the metros to check stock prices on a real time basis and trade.

Prices of over 4700 listed companies would be available under 'BSE Quotes' on R World. Reliance India Mobile users can always customize the ticker to show only the scrips of their choice and track the performance of their portfolio. BSE Ticker can be viewed by paying RS 4/- per session in which the ticker will be refreshed automatically. For any subsequent search of stock that is not there on the ticker, user pays RS 2/- extra.

"Imagine while you are traveling you get to know about merger of two companies you have invested in. Worried about the fate of the two stocks, you may want to call up your stockbroker but he may be unreachable. Internet may not be at hand either. RIM subscribers now will not have to worry about all this as they can get this information on their mobile phones in real-time, anytime and anywhere," says Mahesh Prasad, President Applications & Solutions Group, Reliance Infocomm.

BSE quotes further enrich R World’s bouquet of finance applications. Currently, it includes National Stock Exchange, National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd. (NCDEX), Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) quotes, information on Reliance Mutual Fund schemes including their net asset value, a finance calculator and an extremely user-friendly mobile banking application that can be accessed even while on move.

R World for its breadth of information, rich media content and video clips has endeared itself to millions of Reliance India Mobile users from all walks of life. Currently, it has over 150 every day-use applications ranging from TV news clips, cricket score updates and movies, City and TV guides, stock market information, railway reservation, mobile banking and commerce, and mobile E-mails, among others.