The Hindu Business Line : Sify announces new tariff for Net telephony service

SIFY Limited, an Internet, network and eCommerce services company, has announced that its Net telephony service is available for Rs 7 per minute from anywhere in India to Jeddah and Riyadh, and calls to other regions within the Gulf will vary between Rs 9 and Rs 13. This is compared to prevailing BSNL rates of Rs 19.40 a minute, says a Sify press release. The new tariff is applicable with immediate effect.

Mr Shrikant Joshi, President, Access Media, Sify, said Internet telephony is increasingly the preferred option for people who want to make frequent international calls at affordable rates. Calls to the Gulf countries comprise about 40 per cent of all international calls from India, he said.

Sify also announced that it has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for IP VPN (Internet protocol virtual private network) markets for the year 2003. According to Frost & Sullivan's research, the Indian IP VPN market was estimated to be $50.4 million in 2003, with Sify having a 48.7 per cent share of the market. The market is estimated to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 31.6 per cent over the next six years to reach a size of $266 million by 2009, says a Sify release.

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