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NEW DELHI, June 18

AFTER successful launches in Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Kerala, iServ India Solutions Pvt Ltd — a part of the Escorts group — today launched its Internet telephony services in Delhi under the brand name `Zybertalk'.

Zybertalk, the new service, will allow subscribers to make international telephone calls from any computer with a multimedia kit, whether at home or in a cyber cafe, at a fraction of the cost of an international long distance (ILD) telephone call. For instance, calls to the US, the UK and Canada will now cost as little as Rs 5 per minute, claim company officials.

With Zybertalk, users in Delhi will now receive a unique dial-in number through which they will be able to access net telephony to make their international calls.

Zybertalk cards will be available with pre-paid talk time worth Rs 500 and Rs 200. And, to make the benefits of the inexpensive net telephony available to all sections of the society, Zybertalk plans to roll out attractive packages aimed at cyber cafes and PCO owners so that non-PC owners can also have access to a PC and utilise the service.

Explaining the features of Zybertalk net telephony, Mr Kushal Banerjee, CEO, iServ India Solutions, said, ``this is a unique concept being introduced in the industry. This will help leverage on network efficiencies and make it possible for people to talk through the Net even if they do not have an internet connection.''

Essentially, once a computer is connected to the Internet, Zybertalk's software changes the voice into digital data and sends it to the backend via the Net. Here, it is reconverted into voice and sent to any telephone through the backbone telecom carriers. Thus, any telephone in the world can be reached via Zybertalk.

All over the world, this system called VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) in the form of Internet telephony has brought the power of connectivity to a vast number of people by providing an alternative means of voice communication at costs that are a fraction of what one pays for conventional ILD telephony, Mr Banerjee said.

The primary users of these services, for the moment, are expected to be parents speaking to their children abroad.

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