Uday Lal Pai

Global spending on online advertising is set to more than triple within the next four years to $22 billion, according to experts. At present Indian ad spend on Internet advertising is just less than 0.1 per cent of the $1.38 billion Indian industry. By 2000 March, Internet ad-spend in India would be to the tune […]

India’s telecom majors Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) will each float separate, wholly-owned subsidiaries to handle Internet and related business soon. While VSNL’s VSNL Seamless Services Limited (VSSL) is all set to float within three months, MTNL’s subsidiary, Millennium Telecom is expected to be operational in a couple of […]

Wipro Net Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Infotech major Wipro Corp., has chalked out an expansion plan that envisages investments to the tune of US$37.5 million over the next three years. The company plans to enter the retail segment in several cities by the year-end. Wipro, at present, focuses on the corporate sector. […]

eVentures India, the company promoted by media baron Rupert Murdoch and PK Mittal of Ispat Group of India to focus on investments in Internet properties, will be operational soon. The company will have equal equity stake from Ispat Group, US Internet venture capitalist Softbank and News Corp-prompted ePartners. Both Softbank and ePartners have a 50:50 […]

The government of India has decided to issue approval for setting up the private international Internet gateways by November. This decision marks the end of monopoly government-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) in providing gateways. Dewang Mehta, head of the inter-ministerial security committee for gateways and president of Nasscom, has informed that the government will […]

The Indian market is getting ready for Internet trading, and The National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India has already announced that it is gearing up to provide Internet trading facility by January 2000. Regional SEs are contemplating becoming the first stock exchange in the country to kick off Internet trading once the market regulator allows […]

India may have only 1.5 million Netizens, but, if you were at last week’s India Internet World, you would have thought differently. Hosted at New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan, there were, according to organizers, over 100 exhibitors, 1,600 delegates, 20,000 business visitors, and 75,000 ordinary visitors at the conference and exhibition, making it the largest international […]

The Net heavyweights are finally zipping onto Indian Internetbahn. Lycos, Yahoo!, WWW Institute and Microsoft are the first among the new batch to cash in on the e-wave in India. Yahoo! (YHOO) plans to set up India-specific portal and search engine. Lycos is setting up a portal for India and nine other countries in Asia. […]

On the back-drop of its huge Internet World India exhibition, Bangalore based Microland Group debuted its technology-focused community site, ITspace.com. ITspace aims to be the resource destination of choice and preferred personal networking platform for savvy IT decision-makers by offering a range of news, user-generated content, discussion forums and peer networking opportunities. “By creating communities […]

Silicon Graphics India (SGI) will begin testing of the first phase of the national Internet backbone (NIB) across 45 cities in India in November. SGI has recently bagged the first phase order of high-performance computing systems for the NIB project being implemented by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The backbone is scheduled to be inaugurated […]

E-mail Service Providers (ESPs) in India are up in the arms over the issue and payment of license fees when the same fees are waived for ISPs. ESPs have vehemently opposed the license fee terms proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and claimed that there was no level-playing field for them vis-a-vis […]

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL), India’s largest ISP and state telecom, aims to make India the global hub for Internet and telecom traffic into Asia and the Far East. It also plans a massive ‘Web farm’ project to host Indian Internet sites. “We see India occupying the same position as the US and some European […]