Only Rs 1,000 a month, they say, pushing forward a nice little rate card. But, as a franchisee of Hathway Cable, he thinks he s doing pretty well, having sold 40 cable modems so far. In the numbers game, Internet access through cable has a long way to go. Initial surveys show low Internet usage.
Individuals continue to prefer the cheaper dial-up ISPs.
At the same time, corporates and high usage individual entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to the faster and unlimited access cable internet. Sample these numbers. On the other hand, Hathway Cable and Datacom, among the first to offer commercial Internet over cable, has so far marketed all of 1,500 cable modems and claims a user base of around 12,000 covering Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore. Mumbai is witnessing the maximum action in the area of cable over internet with several players in the fray. The Hindujas INCable network says it has got commercial services going in the last three months in three locations in Mumbai, M G Road in Bangalore, Vasant Kunj in Delhi and parts of Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.