Dishnet,TTSL tie-up for Internet

MUMBAI: size="2" face="Arial">DishnetDSL, a broadband service provider,

has forged a strategic partnership with Tata Teleservices Ltd

(TTSL), a basic service operator. Under this strategic

partnership, DishnetDSL would co-locate its Digital Subscriber

Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs) with the local telephone

exchanges of TTSL and would provide broadband Internet access to

anyone on the TTSL wire line network.






While this strategic partnership provides DishnetDSL with a
tremendous reach in the form of readily available last mile

network extending across several cities and towns in six states

that include Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra,

Gujarat and Delhi, where TTSL is currently operational. The move

would enable TTSL to leverage its existing infrastructure to

deliver broadband Internet services to its Tata Indicom wire line

customers.






The revenue sharing arrangement between the two companies would
be in the ratio of 25:75 wherein TTSL will get 25 percent of the

revenues and DishnetDSL would get the rest. The services priced

at Rs 995 per month and would be sold under the DishnetDSL brand

in the country. DishnetDSL currently has 30,000 customers and is

planning to increase the number to 85,000 by the end of this

year.






TTSL MD S Ramakrishnan said, "This strategic partnership
opens up new vistas for broadband on demand and ushers in an era

of unprecedented high-speed Internet penetration in the

country."






DishnetDSL CEO V Srinivasan said, "DSL technology empowers a
regular copper telephone line to transmit data simultaneously

with voice signals. Such technological benefits would

significantly enhance the value proposition to customers both

wanting to own or already owning a Tata Indicom landline

phone."