Dishnet Wireless Ltd launched its Wi-Fi services in Chennai on
April 27, at a glittering ceremony. The company unveiled the brand,
Dishnet Red Broadband Wi-Fi, and announced elaborate plans to
promote Wi-Fi services in Chennai and across India under the Red
brand name. V G Suri, vice-president, sales and marketing, Dishnet
Wireless Ltd, and Vinesh Paperwala, district manager, South Asia,
Manufacturing, Energy and Telecom, Intel, launched the new
product.
Dishnet Red Broadband Wi-Fi will enable Internet users across
Chennai to access Internet at superior broadband speeds at some of
the most popular public locations (Dishnet Red Wi-Fi Hotspots) in
the city. These Hotspot locations comprise of a variety of segments
like hotels, restaurants, cafes, airports, railway station,
shopping malls, convention centres, hospitals, educational
institutions and other public locations, Suri said, adding that
this service was expected to roll out in June this year.
Wi-Fi - Wireless Fidelity - is a term used for wireless
connectivity to the Internet or to the local area network (LAN). It
operates on the standard protocol of 802.11 b and enables Internet
access over a small area, called Hotspot, through a
transmitter.
Dishnet RED has ambitious plans to expand its Wi-Fi network across
the country. As a first step in a phased exercise, the company
plans to launch its services in eight cities in the country -
Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and
Ahmedabad - and subsequently cover 38 cities by March 2006,
amounting to 6,000 Hotspots across the country. By doing so,
Dishnet RED aims to become the dominant Wi-Fi service provider in
India. At present, there are 107 Hotspots signed across Chennai of
which 53 Hotspots are operational. The remaining Hotspots would be
operational in the next 35 days, Suri said.
Expressing the euphoria within the company, V Srinivasan, CEO,
Dishnet Wireless Ltd., said, "We at Dishnet are proud to present
the next generation of Internet technology which will connect the
ever-growing Internet users with our high-speed Wireless Internet
access solutions."
Wireless broadband access has rocketed to stardom as a popular
standard and a comprehensive technology in India. This high-speed
wireless technology enables customers to access information, video
and audio on their wireless device faster than most users do from
their wired computer at home, while on the move, away from home and
their workstations.
Paperwala said Intel was associated with the product in terms of
the wireless verification programme. Wireless connectivity would
revolutionise networking and communications in the future and raise
the productivity levels of employees as well.
Dishnet Wireless Ltd is a group company of the Chennai-based
Sterling Infotech Group, promoted by C Sivasankaran. Dishnet
pioneered DSL broadband Internet access in India. Now, the company
takes a step further to pioneer the next thing in Internet access -
True Wireless Broadband. With an aim to become the leader in
enterprise and wireless Internet services, Dishnet has initiated a
focused effort to have deployments across most number of Wi-Fi
locations throughout the country. With this, Dishnet would soon
emerge as the pioneer in the public deployment of Wi-Fi and WIMAX
technologies. Through enterprise and wireless Internet services,
Dishnet is focusing to provide 3 services - corporate &
enterprise solutions, wireless broadband and Wi-Fi services - and
plans to extensively use WIMAX technology to support all the three
services, Suri said.
