From: icr@rodan.UU.NET (I. Chandrashekar Rao)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: UUNET India Limited
Date: 8 Nov 1992 22:17:09 -0500
Organization: UUNET Communications
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

Thank you for the overwhelming response and queries regarding
UUNET India. Due to the large number of letters we regret the
delay in answering all of them. Eventually we will be answering
each one of you who had asked for info on us individually.

The latest status regarding UUNET India is as follows:

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.

Also our Software Exports Division is going on stream from December '92
and is located at the Software Technology Park, Hyderabad. We are already
working on projects which involve Device Driver Development for UNIX and
Windows as well User Interfaces Development in European Languages for our
packages under Windows. 

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.

Detailed Info on UUNET India will be made available at Various places in
the U.S as soon as our brochures are ready. We will shortly inform the 
addresses and the numbers where you can contact to get this info if you are
in the U.S.

For more detailed or specific info please address your queries to
info@uunet.in 

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

Phone/Fax: +91 842 247787 E-mail: info@uunet.in  |  uunet!uunet-in!info
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian