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Dishnet offers bandwith on demand for DSL customers

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI AUG. 23. The DSL customers among the Internet users can have bandwidth-on-tap, thanks to the launch of `Open Pipe' by Dishnet DSL.

Open Pipe allows DSL customers of Dishnet the Internet access straightway at 512 kbps speed and yet allows them the leeway to pick application-linked bandwidth.

Typically, this will mean that a DSL subscriber can opt for 64 kbps speed for narrow band applications such as sending and receiving e-mails. If he wishes to view a streaming web cast, which needs higher bandwidth, he can go in for a higher 512 kbps speed.

The new service instantly shifts the management of Internet usage cost from the service provider to customers. Further, the pricing of the DSL service will undergo a complete change. Price in the Internet field has been the function of varied factors such as the width of the pipe, time consumed and actual data traffic. Width of the pipe has been a crucial one, among these.

The Open Pipe service, however, removes speed as an element in price fixation. This can prove a boon to bandwidth-hungry applications such as video conferencing, video-on-demand, real time online gaming and the like.

Addressing a press conference here today, V. Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dishnet, said the Open Pipe would increase the throughput, improve availability of time and beef up quality of work.

The bandwidth provisioning process, he said, was automated and all that a customer required to do was to log on to a secure web page and click on the desired bandwidth. Mr. Srinivasan said Dishnet had a net active DSL customer base of 23,000, comprising corporate, SMEs (small and medium enterprises) and cyber hubs, among others. He claimed that Dishnet was adding, on an average, about 1200 new DSL customers a month. This, he said, would go up to 2000 a month.

The average revenue per user (DSL customer) was Rs. 3200. This would rise by 10-15 per cent now that Dishnet had launched Open Pipe. Dishnet, he said, had around two lakh active clients for its dial-up service. It was set to adding 20,000 customers a month for its dial-up service.

Dishnet had posted a revenue of Rs. 110 crores for 2002-03 and made a cash profit. Mr. Srinivasan said Dishnet was hoping to scale revenue of Rs. 200 crores this year.

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