Until recently, MTNL was listed as a category B license holder, which limits its services to Delhi and Mumbai. A license that will allow it to operate nationwide. MTNL has about 40,000 Internet subscribers to date.
Millennium is still a shell company and no assets have yet been transferred to it.
According to Narinder Sharma, MTNL Chairman and Managing Director, the future strategy for MTNL's portal and Internet business and a road map for the company will be finalized soon. With hundreds of ISPs licensed to provide services and returns from dial-up customers diminishing, MTNL has decided to focus on corporate customers. MTNL will be targeting a subscriber base of 800,000 over the next three years. The Internet company is also in talks with various television channels to provide Internet over cable. It has already established an alliance with Sun TV for that purpose.