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To: JohnG who wrote (97169)	4/9/2001 2:08:07 PM
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Telelink to invest Rs 1,000 cr in broadband services New Delhi: Telelink, a wholly- owned basic phone company of Shyam Telecom, will soon formally introduce broadband services in Jaipur with a plan to cover 15 cities and around 500 of villages by next March. Trial Broadband services have been offered in Jaipur for a few weeks after which the company has signed up around 4,000 subscribers already. ``We are now ready to go in for full- speed roll out of broadband services and want to formally announce the commercial launch of services on Tuesday,'' said Rajiv Mehrotra, CMD Shyam Telecom. The company, said Mehrotra, has achieved financial closure tying up around Rs 500 crore of debt for the project. He, however, said the details of the closure would be announced later. ``Overall, we would invest around Rs 5,000 crore in the project within 10 years and of that around Rs 1,000 crore would be invested over the next couple of years,'' he added. Paid up capital of Telelink is around Rs 500 crore. The company has already invested Rs 225 crore in the project. Several basic telecom operators in the country are setting up broadband networks which enable high-speed access to the Net through digital phone lines, mainly the optic fibre cables (OFC), as well as through wireless connections. Telelink, to begin with, will provide connections at 786 KBPS to 2 MBPS speeds and would soon offer 8 MBPS links. Telelink has laid 1,000 km of OFC and would add another 3,000 km OFC by December 2001. To begin with, however, a large number of connections have been given through fixed wireless technology called wireless in local loop (WLL). WLL enables rapid deployment of basic phones in congested or remote areas doing away with the need to lay fibre in the ground from a phone exchange to subscriber premises. ``For now we're are witnessing a faster take-off of wireless connections, which are based on CDMA (code division multiple access) technology supplied by Lucent,'' said Mehrotra. Around 65 per cent of the subscriber base set up so has wireless connections and only 35 per cent are on wireline. Lucent is setting up the broadband infrastructure for Telelink in Rajasthan. It has set up two 5ESS switch