Reliance Communications (RCom) today announced entering a formal tie-up with USA-based GetJar which is the world’s second largest mobile application stores after Apple App Store.

The services will be offered over RCom’s R-World platform. This will be in addition to RCom’s App Stores offerings launched in February this year. Te services can be availed by RCom’s GSM as well as CDMA subscribers.

“We wanted to partner with the largest, most experienced, “open” application catalog provider to address virtually any device being used by our customers,” said Mr. Anil Pande, Head – VAS, Reliance Communications, “Our partnership with GetJar means that all Reliance Communications customers will instantly have access to thousands of applications ranging from games, shopping and lifestyle applications to sports, entertainment and productivity applications.”

“Our agreement with Reliance Communications allows it to immediately connect its customers with over 65,000 free applications with very little effort,” said Ilja Laurs, founder and CEO of GetJar. “It made a great deal of sense to partner with India’s largest integrated communication service provider as GetJar is also the fourth most visited mobile site in India. We are very excited to offer our catalog of free applications through Reliance Communications’ R-World platform.”

The Applications will span across different categories including games, social networking, sports, entertainment and productivity applications. Applications from popular social networking sites such as Facebook Mobile, Yahoo, Fandango and eBuddy will also be available. The Applications support over 2300 handsets.

Access charges of 50 paise per MB will be applicable on the services.