The Hindu Business Line : 1.3 lakh register for BSNL DataOne

BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd's (BSNL) broadband subscriber base has crossed 5,000 users with over 1.32 lakh registrations. The State-owned company had reported 1,000 connections and one lakh registrations for its Data One services at the end of January.

The company had launched broadband services on January 14 from Chennai and is offering speeds of 256 Kbps at Rs 500 per month. BSNL proposes to reach 15 cities this month and approximately 200 cities by the end of this fiscal. The company has kept a target of reaching 1 million subscribers over the next couple of years.

BSNL offers separate tariff packages for home and business. The home users can avail bandwidth of minimum download speed of 256 Kbps at Rs 500 per month without security deposit while business users have to shell out Rs 120 monthly with 2 months rental as security deposit. BSNL's broadband network is centrally managed from Network Operating Centres (NOC) located at two sites one of them being the master at Bangalore and the other disaster recovery site at Pune. The technology called ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) will allow the subscriber to surf the net and have a phone conversation simultaneously.

Broadband is slated to be the next big thing after the mobile boom. Companies such as Bharti and Reliance are also moving into the broadband space with applications in various fields such as tele-medicine, tele-education, scientific research and tele-agriculture.

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