Thursday - Apr 06, 2006
Televisionpoint.com Correspondent
In what could be one of the most ambitious broadband rollout projects in India, two public sector organisation's, Power Grid Corporation and the Transmission Corp of Andhra Pradesh (APTransco), have teamed up with Online Media Solutions to launch broadband using the grids of the State owned outfits.
While APTransco will be the first partner in the public-private partnership joint venture, and will have a 26 per cent stake, Online Media, a subsidiary of the Hyderabad based Gold stone group, will be holding a 52 per cent stake, and Power Grid will have the balance 23 per cent.
"What Online Media brings to the JV table, apart from equity, is that it has stakes in major cable TV networks throughout the State," P. V. Narasimha Rao, director of Online Media Solutions.
The JV will be offering digital cable TV, cable Internet, Voice over Internet Protocol telephony, Virtual Private Networks, and online meter reading, energy audit, and speedy billing and collections, video conferencing, and E-Governance solutions.
The JV will be laying an additional 6,500 km of optic fiber cable in the AP State. The JV will have a 100 Gigabytes per second backbone, which will be linked to a one GBPS ring to district headquarter towns, which will be linked to mandal headquarters and customers with a 10 MBPS link.
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This is something that India needed and I am happy that at last Power Grid Corporation and the Transmission Corp of Andhra Pradesh (APTransco) are going to start it. One of the key factors behind the succcess of outsourcing is high speed internet.
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