Win Cable and Internet
Providing broadband service since: October 2000
Bandwidth provided: 40 kbps to 128 kbps
Technology used: LAN-based network with a mixture of fiber optic, coaxial thick net, and UTP cable.
Market segment targeted: Residential, corporate, commercials, cyber cafés, institutions
Tariff: One-time installation Rs 4,000 for residential, Rs 5,000 for offices, institutions, and cyber cafés; Monthly charges Rs 800 to Rs 1,200 per month depending on the number of machines, monthly rates are lower if you pay annual charges; 100-hours package (valid for 6 months) Rs 2,200; 500-hours package (valid for one year) Rs 8,750
Area of operation: Bandra to Santacruz
Contact 
E-mail: ardhendu@wincable.net 
Tel: 22-6050607/8866 Fax: 6555999 
Address: Kohli House, 32nd Road, Off MMK college, Bandra (W), Mumbai 400050

Wipro Net
Providing broadband services since: September 1999
Bandwidth provided: 128 kbps to 12 Mbps
Technology used: Copper cable at all locations, Fiber optic and wireless in select cities
Market segment targeted: Internet Access: Net Kracker (Retail), Corporate Internet access (subscribe for Browsing, FTP, or sending and receiving mail)
Tariff: Depends on bandwidth required
Area of operation: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Goa, Guntur, Guwahati, Haldia, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Nasik, New Delhi, Pondicherry, Pune, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara, Vishakhapatnam
Contact
E-mail: info@wipro.net  Website: www.wipro.net  Tel: 80-5092599, 5580871 Fax: 5596748 Address: Wipro Net, 10th Floor, Du-Parc Trinity, 17, M G Road, Bangalore 560001

Zeenext
Providing broadband services since: November 1999
Bandwidth provided: 128 kbps to 25 Mbps (which is also scalable)
Technology used: Broadband Cable media with DOCSIS-compliant equipment and Cisco manufactured components
Market segment targeted: Corporates, cyber cafés, homes, computer institutes, colleges
Tariff: Dependent on bandwidth required. Special charges for schools, colleges, and computer institutes
Corporate connection (128 kbps on a shared pipe): One-time activation charges Rs 1,000; Cabling charges Rs 5,000; Cost of cable modem Rs 12,000; Monthly charges Rs 6,000; Service charges Rs 500 per month (permits 1,600 MB of data transfer per month, Rs 4 per MB after that)

Home users (64 kbps): One-time activation charges Rs 500; Cost of modem Rs 12,000; Monthly charges: Rs 1,500 per PC per month (Can download 400 MB per month, Rs 4 per MB after that)
Cyber café: Depends on the number of computers
Area of operation: Bangalore and Delhi (at present), will expand further in Delhi and launch in Hyderabad and Mumbai
Contact
E-mail: helpdesk@zeeaccess.com  
Tel: 80-5599999 Fax: 5580099 
Address: Zee Interactive Multimedia, United Mansions, 39 M G Road, Bangalore 560001

You may also have heard of Reliance as a broadband service provider. The company is in the process of laying down broadband infrastructure in 115 cities across the country, and will begin providing services sometime this year. These services will include voice—local, national long distance, international long distance, and mobile; Web hosting; call centers; selling or trading bandwidth; e-commerce; secure VPNs; Internet data centers, etc.

Juhi Bhambal and Pragya Madan in Delhi, Sandeep Saxena in Mumbai, Vini Goel in Bangalore