Telecom Lead India: Reliance Communications on Thursday revealed that it is ready to offer Aadhar authentication process.
The mobile operator has already conducted testing of the services in both company owned and non company owned retail outlets. Aadhar online authentication process is a paperless and regulatory process to activate new mobile connection instantly.
Reliance Communications is the first telecom operator in India to test the concept of Aadhar authentication from a non company owned multi brand small retail outlet. Reliance’s non company owned multi brand small retail outlets spread across the country accounts for 90 percent of the new SIM cards sold every month.
Reliance Communications is ready to launch the services across all circles after getting guidelines issued by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
Mobile customers can soon walk into any retailer in the country with their respective Aadhar card, post which the retailer can share the customer’s Aadhar profile details along with the biometric authentication details online with UIDAI server for real time authentication of the identity of the customer.
Post this authentication, the customer details can be fetched online from UIDAI server and the customer mobile connection can now be processed with Reliance Communications for immediate activation. The customer verification process is thus undertaken through Aadhar authentication.
Anurag Prashar, president – Services, Reliance Communications said, “This online paperless process for instant customer verification and subsequent mobile activation at all multi brand small retail outlets is set to provide a compelling new experience in terms of speed and convenience to our customers nationally.”
