Dishnet to set up 250 hot spots in Hyd

Chennai-based Dishnet Wireless Limited is setting up around 250 hot spots that will enable people to have wireless internet access in and around Hyderabad by the end of this month.

Disclosing this at a media conference here on Tuesday, V G Suryanarana (vice-president-sales and marketing), Dishnet Wireless, said that the service would be available both in prepaid and post paid models.

The hot spots covering railway stations, educational institutions, IT parks, hospitals, cafeterias, star hotels among others will also have a revenue-sharing arrangement with the owner of the property, he said.

The company is expecting about 30,000 customers in the first 12-month period in Hyderabad.

"For an individual or a household, we may charge Rs 25 per hour, and for hotels it will be Rs 45. The per hour charge may go up to Rs 250 in case of star hotels," Suryanarana said.

According to him, the company is planning to set up over 6,000 We-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) hot spots across the country in the next 18 months.

The company is also planning to provide Wimax (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) broadband services in 38 cities across the country around the same period with an initial customer base of 2 lakh.

The company proposes to invest over Rs 250 crore in the initial year and expects a revenue of Rs 107 crore in the first year from all its wireless products.