Dishnet expects 20% of revenues from Wi-Fi

NEW DELHI: Dishnet Wireless, unveiled its brand of Wi-Fi services, Dishnet RED Broadband Wi-Fi, in Delhi on Wednesday. According to the company, Dishnet RED Broadband Wi-Fi would enable Internet users across Delhi to access Internet at superior broadband speeds at some of the most popular public locations (Dishnet Red Wi-Fi hot spots) in the city. These hotspot locations include hotels, restaurants, cafes, airports, railway stations, etc.



According to Dishnet Wireless VP VG Suri, at present there are 29 hotspots signed across Delhi of which 11 hotspots are operational. He added that the remaining hotspots would be operational in the next 35 days.



"The company is planning to initially make available the Wi-Fi broadband services in eight cities and subsequently extend this to 38 cities amounting to 6,000 hotspots across the country by the end of March 2006. The company would invest Rs 250 crore on this project," he added.



The company expects 2,00,000 Wi-Fi subscribers by the full roll out of the project and is expecting revenue of Rs 107 crore by March 2006. Wi-Fi is expected to contribute 20 percent of the company's revenue, while Enterprise services and solutions and wireless broadband is expected to contribute 50 percent and 30 percent of the revenue respectively.



Intel is extending its support to Dishnet in identifying hotspots, their bandwidth and other essentials that a wireless network requires and provide an environment to deploy Wi-Fi broadband services, throughout the country.