The Hindu Business Line : VSNL ties up with StarHub for international roaming

The company is tapping the international high-value business travellers' segment by providing roaming wireless broadband service to them during their stay in India, it said.

The Tatas-owned VSNL said it is the first Indian service provider to enter in to a wireless broadband roaming alliance with an international operator.

Seamless roaming and usage will be provided within the VSNL Wireless Broadband network in India; visitors can access it using their home country account and identity.

StarHub customers — whether mobile, broadband or cable — can use wireless broadband service at over 200 Tata Indicom Wi-Fi hotspots across India.

Other global Wi-Fi operators will be added to the list of roaming partners SHORTLY, said a statement from VSNL.

VSNL operates over 200 Wi-Fi hotspots, spread across the major cities. The hotspots include a leading chain of hotels, major domestic and international airports, popular café chains, restaurants, bookstores, stadiums, educational institutions, RailTel cybercafés and leading shopping malls in India, it said.

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