The Hindu Business Line : Syringa, RailTel tie up to offer Net telephony

The service will be offered on RailTel's `ISP with Internet Telephony' licence. The Hyderabad-based Syringa would deploy its technology platform to deliver it to the customer.

Syringa also does service planning, marketing and customer acquisition apart from providing the technology. The partnership is on a revenue sharing basis for a period of one year, Mr Ravi Jatavallabha, Director, Syringa Communications, told Business Line.

The service allows customers to make inexpensive international calls from the country from a soft phone on a PC or an IP phone, either of them connected to the Internet. Customers can register online through the Web site and instantly use for calling outside India to any destination. The customer base includes household, corporate, PCO and Internet cafes.

Syringa has also signed up two other customers — Tick Business Solutions and Radiant Info Systems— to offer the service through every Rajiv Internet Village (RIV) franchisee.

As per the partnership, the service will be installed in each RIV centre that enables international calling facility at a very low cost. TBS & Radiant have been contracted for the roll out of the RIV, an Andhra Pradesh Government initiative, which aims to take the benefits of IT to rural and semi-urban areas of the State.

The VoIP product / solutions development company was started by two entrepreneurs in the second half of 2003, with the objective of making service-based technology platforms for telecom/Internet service providers and enterprises, he said.

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