Monday, June 9, 2008

WiFi is the flavour of the season

Indian broadband market is witnessing a heightened interest in wireless technolgies, especially WiFi. Even Government of India is contemplating deploying these technologies to enable broadband penetration in rural areas...

Meanwhile, YOU Snapper, the JV entity of YOU Telecom and Red Snapper has made plans to deploy its WiFi infrastructure in all the 10 cities where YOU Telecom has its optic fibre network. The initial cost is estimated to be around Rs 80 crore....

When rolled out, YOU Telecom's customer base and revenues are expected to double up in the next 2 years....

Currently, YOU has an active customer base of over 100,000 and a registered susbcriber base of over 1, 75,000.....