Reliance expects to Offer Triple Play @ $30 per month

Prakash Bajpai, president of Reliance Infocomm, thinks a bouquet of voice, data, gaming and IPTV services can be offered at less than $30 a month for home user. Speaking at a panel session on IPTV at the Broadband World Forum Asia in Hong Kong, Bajpai said, “For residential customers we can offer integrated service bundles on an Ethernet pipe, including voice, basic Internet access, a Wi-Fi network for your home, a Web site with email, anti-virus and anti-spam service, video surveillance, wireless streaming, IPTV and gaming for around $30 a month.” The IPTV portion of the bundle would be less than $7.00. However, affordability, multilingual content etc will still remain key issue for the take-off of broadband in India, he siad. Bajpai also said that by 2010, India will have 50 million residential/SOHO broadband customers paying at least $15 a month for services, which works out to $9 billion in potential revenue.