Date:14/04/2005 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/04/14/stories/2005041400790505.htm

Back RailTel OFC roll-out

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CHENNAI: Railtel will be rolling out an optical fibre cable covering 42,000 km and covering 4,000 cities by 2008, according to Mr K.K. Bajpeyee, Managing Director, RailTel Corporation of India. Till March 2005, RailTel has completed laying OFC on 26,500 km.

Mr Bajpeyee said that RailTel has a national level tie-up for leasing of bandwidth and service to Tata and Hutch. Other clients include BSNL, Bharti, Idea, Equant, BPL, Pacenet, Sify, BG Boradband, VSNL, and so on. During 2004-05, RailTel earned Rs 66 crore from the lease of bandwidth and dark fibre, tower space and Internet bandwidth.

He said that RailTel could also consider going in for national long distance and international long distance services once the unified licensing regime is in place and carrier pre-selection is permitted.