Tata Tele rolls out superfast broadband
Mumbai: Internet users looking for a high-speed broadband connection have an option now.
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra (TTML) has launched the country's first high-end, ultra-fast broadband, with speeds up to 200 times that of a standard broadband connection.
With this, TTML has become the first operator to introduce the more advanced wide area ethernet technology in place of the more common digital subscriber line (DSL) based technology for broadband.
DSL and its variants, currently in use by nearly all the telecom operators for broadband, support a maximum speed of 8 megabits per second (Mbps).
The TTML service, in contrast, will offer speeds such as 100 Mbps. No internet-based service uses such high speeds as on date.
Services like video-sharing portals use only around 0.4 Mbps for the standard version and around 1 Mbps for high quality video-streaming. Very high quality video services, such as high definition video on demand, use about 4 Mbps to 10 Mbps.
Though such services have been launched on DSL-based technologies, such as by MTNL in Delhi and Mumbai, success has been mixed as they work only within 2 km of the telephone exchange.
TTML's fibre ethernet-based technology is expected to give it an upper hand, though at Rs 10,500 per month, the price tag is a hefty one. TTML said it has already connected around 20,000 buildings in Mumbai with wide area ethernet technology and plans to leverage the network to launch high-speed products such as interactive TV and life-like video-calling for consumers.
"It is a somewhat niche product," Mukund Rajan, managing director of TTML and board member of Tata Teleservices (TTSL), said. "We are working on a host of intra-city services and will make announcements very soon."
The 1,500 km long fibre network covers all the major areas of Mumbai, but is yet to be available universally in the city. "We are expanding it beyond the 20,000 buildings connected so far," said Rajan.
The company will roll out similar services in other markets at a later stage, he added. On Wednesday, TTML also launched a 3G-based wireless broadband service in Mumbai. The service had earlier been launched in Bangalore and Chennai.
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Mumbai: Internet users looking for a high-speed broadband connection have an option now.
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra (TTML) has launched the country's first high-end, ultra-fast broadband, with speeds up to 200 times that of a standard broadband connection.
With this, TTML has become the first operator to introduce the more advanced wide area ethernet technology in place of the more common digital subscriber line (DSL) based technology for broadband.
DSL and its variants, currently in use by nearly all the telecom operators for broadband, support a maximum speed of 8 megabits per second (Mbps).
The TTML service, in contrast, will offer speeds such as 100 Mbps. No internet-based service uses such high speeds as on date.
Services like video-sharing portals use only around 0.4 Mbps for the standard version and around 1 Mbps for high quality video-streaming. Very high quality video services, such as high definition video on demand, use about 4 Mbps to 10 Mbps.
Though such services have been launched on DSL-based technologies, such as by MTNL in Delhi and Mumbai, success has been mixed as they work only within 2 km of the telephone exchange.
TTML's fibre ethernet-based technology is expected to give it an upper hand, though at Rs 10,500 per month, the price tag is a hefty one. TTML said it has already connected around 20,000 buildings in Mumbai with wide area ethernet technology and plans to leverage the network to launch high-speed products such as interactive TV and life-like video-calling for consumers.
"It is a somewhat niche product," Mukund Rajan, managing director of TTML and board member of Tata Teleservices (TTSL), said. "We are working on a host of intra-city services and will make announcements very soon."
The 1,500 km long fibre network covers all the major areas of Mumbai, but is yet to be available universally in the city. "We are expanding it beyond the 20,000 buildings connected so far," said Rajan.
The company will roll out similar services in other markets at a later stage, he added. On Wednesday, TTML also launched a 3G-based wireless broadband service in Mumbai. The service had earlier been launched in Bangalore and Chennai.
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