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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (534)	1/21/2000 9:38:00 AM
From: Robert Scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1471

HUGE NEWS!!!! India MTNL Open To Sharing Internet RevenuesBy Reuters staff20 January 2000 totaltele.com India's state-run phone services firm Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) is willing to share revenues from Internet access with private Internet service providers (ISPs), its chairman said on Thursday. "I am ready to share the revenues," Srinivas Rajagopalan told a seminar on ISPs in the Indian capital. He later told reporters that the details had not yet been worked out and would be negotiated with the ISPs. Nearly four million people subscribe to MTNL's fixed-line phone service and over 20,000 use its Internet service. MTNL competes with other ISPs while being a telephone services company. Internet services in India are not toll-free and increased Internet usage boosts revenue for telephone access providers likeMTNL.