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Indian firm to launch wireless int'l broadband
2007-04-30 10:25:15 Xinhua English

MUMBAI, May 1 (Xinhua)-- India's Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), a telecom firm belonging to the Tata group, will provide roaming wireless broadband services to international travelers, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported here Tuesday.

The service will allow seamless roaming and usage within the VSNL wireless broadband network in India wherein visitors can access high-speed wireless broadband using their home country account and identity.

VSNL has partnered with StarHub, Singapore's second largest info-communication company. This will allow all StarHub customers, whether mobile, broadband or cable, to use wireless broadband service at over 200 Tata Indicom Wi-Fi Hotspots across India.

Other global Wi-Fi operators will soon be added to the list of roaming partners.

"Global travelers will never feel disconnected in India now," IANS quoted Prateek Pashine, vice president (marketing and technology) of VSNL, as saying.

VSNL, a global communications services provider, is the only Indian member in the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), a global consortium of the world's leading wireless operators.

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