iNabling to put up network

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, AUG. 24. The Bangalore-based iNabling Technologies, which has developed an e-mail device - iStation - capable of sending e-mail messages without a personal computer, plans to invest Rs. 6-7 crores by March 2002 (besides running costs), to put up an All India network, according to Mr.John Aravamuthan, CEO.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, he said the company had already invested about Rs. 11 crores in the last three years. It had availed of $1 million venture funding each from ICICI and Infinity, besides $500,000 from its Chairman Mr. B. V. Jagadeesh, who is co-founder of Exodus Communications and President of Netscaler.

Mr. Aravamuthan said they planned to install 66 low cost servers across the country by March. The messages fed into the iStation were carried through the company's own servers. The iStation had been launched so far in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. In Karnataka, he said 60 iStation machines had been installed in Mandya to enable the Chief Minister's office to receive e-mails from there. At present it has facility to send and receive messages in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.

Three models of iStation are priced between Rs. 5,995 and Rs. 7,995, and the service charges for sending unlimited number of e- mails for one year are Rs. 1,200. Besides having its own dealers, the company plans to tap the five lakh PCO (public call offices) potential which it refers to as PEOs (public email offices).

He claimed that since its launch, the company received enquiries from Latin America, Canada and Australia.

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