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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Citigroup Venture Capital promoted You Telecom is now planning to provide broadband services over WiMax. You Telecom's You Explore is in talks with Maxis owned, Aircel for the infrastructure.

Mr. Charvarthy of You Telecom said,

Initially, we will offer the services for the SME sector and later move on to enterprise and residential use.

Earlier, we reported about Sify's WiMax launch. When contacted Sify's corporate office in Chennai, they said that it is initially targeting Corporate and SMEs. Entry cost for Home users would be way too high.

You Telecom is planning to offer Video Telephony but is hindered by the high cost of instruments which are currently pegged at Rs 17,000. Video Telephony never picked up amongst consumers. My guess is with deployment of 3G, one may then opt for video calls. However, 3G mobile handsets such as Nokia N70 and others are easily available at prices cheaper than Rs 17,000.

You Telecom claims that it currently has 140,000 broadband subscribers in 11 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Vadodra and Visakhapatnam.

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Published on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 at 9:56 PM 0 comments

Monday, February 19, 2007

Sify Launches WiMax Broadband

Close on the heels of DoT delicensing the WiMax 5.8 GHz spectrum, Sify Limited announced the launch of WiMax mobility solutions. Sify will provide Internet access, voice and video broadband services to enterprise, residential and cybercafe subscribers in over 200 cities throughout India.

Mr. Bhaskar S, Chief Technology Officer, Sify Limited said,

WiMAX is the future of Wireless Internet Communications especially in fast developing countries like India. With this launch, Sify has made a timely and strategic addition to its connectivity solutions portfolio. We are confident that this offering will enhance our customers’ experience and help us cater to their fast growing wireless information needs.

Sify went for the launch aboard a catamaran off Mumbai’s Gateway of India with a live demonstration of a 3.3 Ghz based product of 802.16d WiMax standard.

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