From: patel@key.amdahl.com (Chandresh Patel)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does i
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:27:50 GMT
Reply-To: patel@key.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced System Division

Most of us here are lucky to have the society support our network
traffic.  I was interested in the rates to get similiar services
in India. I contacted UUNET India (a new joint venture with the UUNET
USA) for upcoming network services there. I have included the copy from
UUNET INDIA. (Conversion rates : $1 ~= Rs. 30)


I would like to find out the rates for other countries for comparision
and  suggestions on what/how can an aspiring engineer (me in some near future
and a bunch of friends back in India) do to get a university or governement 
research organization to provide us a feed to Internet or other international
organization.


Thanks in advance for any help,
Chandresh patel


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Thank you for your interest in UUNET INDIA's operations.

Here is a brief outline of what is going on here.

Users in India have to go through UUNET INDIA's hub in Hyderabad, i.e. directly
dial into it, at night if they please to save on long distance charges as there
is a 75% discount after 10:00 p.m.  By the end of the year we will have nodes 
operational in Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and Bombay from which all international
mail will be routed to UUNET via the Hyderabad hub.

Right now international e-mail is available to subscribers who are willing to 
get to us here in Hyderabad.  Our system polls UUNET, U.S.A. twice a day as of
now (this will be increased as traffic increases to probably hourly).  The 
poll timings now are:

8:00-9:00 am IST - to pick up all mail from the U.S. and also send any mail.
6:00-7:00 pm IST - to deliver all mail from India and also pick up.

This ensures that there is a turnaround time of only a day/night at the most.  
i.e. if you send a message to India in the evening you should expect a reply
by the next morning and vice-versa.  A special request for immediate transfer
is supported by using a header in the text of the message indicating this, 
but this costs Rs. 30/- extra a shot and is available only from the Indian
end.   


The charges are as follows:

Annual subscription :  Rs. 15,000. 
Connect time charge :  Inbound - Rs. 90 per hour (minimum of 2 mins.)
                       Local Outbound - Rs. 120 per hour (minimum of 4 mins.)
International E-mail:  Rs. 7 per KB (which includes all headers etc also) 
                       with a minimum of 2 KB per session of mail sent/received. 
Subscribers in India will have to pay for international mail they receive
as well as of now.

The rates for access to our local hubs in the cities mentioned above are not
yet finalized.  Access via I-NET (the Indian X.25 PDN) is also envisaged
over the next few months.

We are offering Public Domain Source Archives on tape and USENET News will
be offered only after we get our leased connection to the U.S. which might 
take another 4 months or so.  At that point mail received will not have to 
be paid for by subscribers here.  Arrangements are being made so that it will
be paid for by the sender from the U.S./International end.  AlterNet
(TCP/IP) service will also commence at that time.

As far as equipment goes the least you require is a PC/XT running DOS even
though a Unix box would be strongly suggested for non-individuals.  You
also need an error correcting modem.  Our Hyderabad hub modems support 
protocols upto V32/V42/V42bis.

Our other services include, turnkey network design/implementation for 
organizations in India and elsewhere.

Hope this has answered most of your questions.  There has been quite an
overwhelming response to the article on USENET so please understand the
reason for this delay in replying to your query.

--
Narayan Raju

Managing Director
UUNET INDIA Limited
270N, Road No. 10, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
India - 500 034.

Phone/Fax: +91 842 247787     E-mail: ndr@uunet.in  |  uunet!uunet-in!ndr


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