Reliance Communications, a leading telecom operator offering nationwide CDMA and GSM mobile services, Wednesday said it has partnered with  Polycom Inc to introduce world's first wireless, high-resolution video conferencing service.

Polycom is a global leader in tele-presence, video and voice solutions.

The service will be marketed through Reliance ADA Group's retail arm, Reliance Webstore , the company said in a statement.

The service is expected to be a mass enabler of video conferencing usage across multiple industry verticals in India.

The jointly developed offering will extend affordable, plug-and-play video conferencing to organizations of all sizes, enabling them to realize immediate productivity and efficiency benefits from real-time, face-to-face visual communication.

Besides small and medium enterprises (SMEs), education, event management, media & entertainment, and hospitality are among the sectors likely to take advantage of the flexible and affordable video conferencing service developed by Reliance and Polycom, the statement added.

Reliance Webstore Limited already offers wired video conferencing services to over 1500 corporate clients through its network of over 200 video conference suites at Reliance World stores across the country.

“Reliance World operates the world's largest network of video conferencing suites. Through our alliance with Polycom, we are making video conferencing a simple plug-and-play operation that can be deployed and used virtually anytime, anywhere,” said Sarup Chowdhary, Director & CEO, Reliance Webstore.

Leveraging Reliance Webstore's extensive retail reach, the service is being commercially rolled out in over 40 Indian cities. The service will be expanded to more cities in a phased manner.

The Wireless Video Conferencing service will ride on Reliance Communications’ telecom infrastructure backbone. Reliance Communications’ extensive pan-India, next generation, integrated, convergent digital network spans over 190,000 route kilometers of fibre optic cable systems. This network is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain.

The out-of-the-box solution will be offered at a price point below Rs 2 lacs and will be powered by Reliance's Video Conferencing service including the countrywide network of video conferencing suites at Reliance World. A connectivity plan of about Rs 1500 per month has been specially designed for this service. This plan covers 10 GB of usage in a month. Additional usage will be billed at the rate of 50 paise per MB. Reliance will also offer this service on an affordable pay-per-use basis.

Reliance Webstore Limited believes that the wireless video conferencing service has the potential to double the market size in India and projects a revenue upside of over Rs 400 crore over the next five years from the new service. The company sees major off-take of the service in mini-metros & smaller cities, especially in the SME business clusters, and expects nearly 60 per cent of the sales to come from these geographies.