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August 12, 2002
RoltaTel offers savings of up to 75% on International calls
Mumbai: Rolta India Limited is launching, on 15 August, RoltaTel - a complete Internet Telephony solution that combines premium dedicated Internet Bandwidth & International calling facilities to ensure that you get voice-grade connectivity. RoltaTel offers hassle-free, voice-quality Internet-based International calls with up to 75% savings.
RoltaTel services are designed to deliver near toll-quality conversation through dedicated Internet bandwidth on priority allocation. This is ensured through a state-of-the-art Internet Data Center, using fiber-optic based premier dedicated Internet bandwidth, resulting in low jitter and minimal disruption. Thereby allowing users to enjoy high-quality voice-grade communication services, over the Internet.
RoltaTel users enjoy the comfort & convenience of using their normal telephone (by an additional device known as YapJack+) or use their PCs, registering once and then get talking. International calls to North America, Europe, Japan and Australia cost upto Rs. 6 per minute including dedicated Internet Access. With this new offering, a user does not need to be a technical whiz to make Internet Telephony calls and enjoy such big savings.
A pre-paid RoltaTel Internet Telephony Card is priced at Rs. 500/-, which includes Net call time, dedicated Internet access and service tax. RoltaTel cards are easily available through Rolta's widespread Dealer & Distributor outlets in Mumbai or online at www.roltatel.com by using the friendly cash-on-delivery option.
Internet telephony is emerging as a low cost alternative to traditional long distance calls considering that over 15 lakh overseas calls are made from India everyday. The total size of the Indian ISD market is estimated to be $ 1.5 billion (Rs. 7,500 crore) with a CAGR of 25% over the next 5 years. Frost & Sullivan projects that the global Retail Voice Over IP (VoIP) market will grow to $78 billion by 2007, a 142% compounded growth over revenues of $1.2 billion in 2000.
International Data Corporation, a market research firm, expects the Indian IP telephony market to grow at a CAGR of 119% to touch Rs. 13,000 crore by 2005. The market size for the year April 2002 to March 2003 is conservatively valued at Rs. 270 crore while optimistic projections during the same period are between Rs. 350-500 crore.
As per industry insiders, with VSNL logging more than Rs. 350 crore of ISD traffic from Mumbai itself, the IP telephony market for Mumbai should be around Rs. 14 crore with a healthy growth rate. The business potential for RoltaTel is estimated to be about Rs. 5 crore in the first year of operations.
Company Background: Rolta is an Indian multinational organization well equipped to provide knowledge-based software & IT-enabled services to customers across the world. By judiciously combining resources from worldwide facilities, Rolta is able to meet customer needs cost- effectively. Since 1982, Rolta has been a pioneer in computer graphics, mapping and engineering software and has consistently been ranked as India's #1 CAD/CAM/GIS solution provider. Rolta is amongst the top Geo-Engineering software conversion service vendors worldwide and is a leading end-to-end provider of eBusiness solutions and services. RoltaNet - a division of Rolta India Ltd. - is ranked as Mumbai's No. 1 ISP. Rolta was recently named amongst the best 200 companies worldwide by Forbes Global (companies with sales upto US$ 500 million).
For additional information
Dr. Sohrab R. Bhot,
Executive Director - Internet Services,
Rolta India Limited
Telephone: 832 6666 / 826 2222 extn. 3801,
Fax: 91-22-836 5992
E-mail: sohrab@rolta.com
