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  • Rebranded ‘Spectra’ CEO aims to offer speed and service at par with developed countries

    Rebranded ‘Spectra’ CEO aims to offer speed and service at par with developed countries

    MUMBAI: It has been touted as the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in India to benchmark 100 Mbps speed across its offerings.

    Spectranet, which is India’s fastest internet service provider according to Netflix’s latest index, has unveiled its brand name – Spectra and website – spectra.co.

    As part of a revamped customer-centric strategy, the company also launched its new product catalogue by introducing 100 Mbps only plans for its customers in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.

    With the new brand approach, Spectra has chosen a typography-led expression which resonates with the brand’s new offerings and agile customer support. The company’s new website — spectra.co — takes a minimalist approach and enables a simple and fluid digital web and mobile experience for customers and visitors.

    The company roped in Ochre, a brand and experience consultancy based in London and Dubai. Ochre had been working closely with the leadership team and customers to create the overall brand expression and experience strategy.

    By providing 100 Mbps speed across all its packages at affordable price points, Spectra has set a new benchmark in the FTTH category in India.

    Spectra MD & CEO Udit Mehrotra said: “By rebranding to Spectra, we intend to bring a new level of broadband experience to consumers. We are aiming to expand our business operation to maximise our customer outreach in the cities we are operating.”

    “We are fully committed to offer higher speeds, better service, and an overall better experience to our customers; at par with services offered globally in the developed countries,” he added.

    The new brand aspires to deliver not just speed but will also follow on three principles – Speed, Service and Simplicity. The company will provide more services to its customers apart from being a high speed internet with unlimited data usage. The company recently forged a partnership with content service provider Hungama.com and is also planning to add more content solutions for its customers to enjoy wider range of services to its customers.

    “People have become more device-agnostic to video streaming, gaming, education, video conference, medical assistance or eGovernance; consumers are looking for high speed internet to access these services. They are craving for connectivity and looking for option that is reliable. We have internet bandwidth to meet the growing need in urban areas of the country. Our new offerings will help our customers connect to devices and make their life better, right from streaming movies to researching homework assignments and more,” he further adds.

    Zia Patel, Strategy Director, and Sebastian Klein, Creative Director from Ochre brings western expertise and local Indian knowhow. The dynamic pair have worked together for over 10 years at Wolff Olins. Zia used to lead Wolff Olins in India. They have created brand identity for some of India’s leading business houses as well as big international brands.

  • Spectranet ranked as fastest FTTH for June 2017

    Spectranet, India’s first 100% fibre broadband service provider today announced that it has been ranked as the fastest FTTH provider by Netflix. They have been ranked number 2 in the overall ISP rankings basis their primetime performance on Netflix, world’s leading internet television network with over 83 million members in over 190 countries.

    Spectranet is ranked number 2 for its superior service provided through its cutting-edge fibre network that delivers speeds of 100 Mbps and beyond and offers truly unlimited downloads & uploads without any speed capping.

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    Courtesy: Netflix

    On this feat, Mr Udit Mehrotra, CEO, Spectranet said, “As we are trending upwards every month since the inception of this ranking in India, we are proud to be the fastest FFTH provider in the ranking and we are looking forward to attain the fastest ISP ranking in the near future. We have already been the fastest fibre based internet service provider basis our performance in the month of September to December 2016. This has been made possible by our sustained efforts to deliver innovative and disruptive services to our customers at amazingly affordable price. Being the only ISP with 100% fibre network we believe that we can advance the lives of people in urban India by creating and delivering the best internet services which has become a basic necessity for people in this era of Third Age of Connectivity’.

    About Netflix survey:

    Netflix ranks performances of prominent ISPs across the globe for their ‘Prime Time Netflix performance’ and the ratings for ISPs in India were introduced first in the month of May 16.  Netflix introduced ‘fast.com’ to provide quick and simple way for any internet user to test their current internet speed.

    About Spectranet

    Spectranet is an innovative and disruptive technology company dedicatedly working to deliver joy, advantage and success for people through and by, the continuous pursuit of excellence in Internet services. It is India’s only end to end pure optical fibre network enabled Internet service provider, capable of delivering speeds of 1 Gbps for home & 10 Gbps for business customers.  With headquarters in Gurgaon, its fibre network presence is currently spread across eight major cities.  For further information, please visit http://www.spectranet.in/

     

  • Spectranet enters next phase of broadband expansion in south India

    MUMBAI: Spectranet has announced its next phase of expansion in south India by launching in Bengaluru.

    One of the first 100 per cent optical fibre broadband service provider , Spectranet company offers truly unlimited usage with symmetric speed of 100 mbps which means that the users will get both 100mbps upload and download speeds. The company offers next generation fiber broadband services with a capability of offering 1 Gbps speeds for residential and 10 Gbps for business customers.

    Spectranet claims to be India’s only end to end pure optical fiber network enabled Internet service provider, capable of delivering speeds of 1 Gbps and more for both home & business segment. With headquarters in Gurgaon, its fiber network presence is currently spread across eight major cities.

    Spectranet’s unique 100mbps unlimited offering will enable consumers to do so much more such as enjoy services like Netflix, use smart TV features, connect more devices. This will be an enabler for the masses as they now will be able to utilize products and services which they were unable to use because of non-availability of good quality broadband.

    The company has invested heavily in its customer support team and have very robust mechanisms to service customer requests. By purchasing the initial launch phase offer, customers will be secured of any changes in launch offer plan for the next 24 months which is only available for the 30 days and after that it would be moved to the regular plan.

    Spectranet managing director & CEO Udit Mehrotra said “Bengaluru being the IT hub of the country was our natural choice to begin our foray into the southern markets. With tech-savvy residents who have a preference for quality services, we are very excited to unleash the third age of connectivity from here. Fibre being the most advanced technology enables broadband to work years on years without the customers needing to upgrade their cables. This enables us to potentially provide speeds 100 times beyond what the customers are experiencing now and enhance their experience. In US, minimum broadband speed is 25 mbps, we want to bring our customers at par with the global broadband users.”

    The company has started off by providing broadband connectivity to the prominent addresses in the city like Bannerghatta, Electronic City, Kundalhalli, Bellandur and will be adding more areas in a phased out fashion.

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  • MSOs on prowl, Incablenet to support Home Cable in Delhi

    MSOs on prowl, Incablenet to support Home Cable in Delhi

    MUMBAI: Conditional access system (Cas) is forcing multi-system operators (MSOs) to strike alliances as they take up the challenge of expanding their digital subscribers.

    The latest to join hands is Incablenet and Vikki Choudhry’s Home Cable Network. Incablenet will be supplying its feed and digital set-top boxes (STBs) to the subscribers of Home Cable Network in South Delhi.

    “We have entered into a strategic alliance with Incablenet. They will be providing STBs to our subscribers. For those consumers who want to take our advanced boxes which are priced at Rs 2150, we will be providing them our systems. Others will have an option to take the Incablenet STBs,” says Choudhry.

    Incablenet uses a different encryption system and its boxes will not support the feed from Home Cable Network. “We have agreed to share each others fibre and infrastructure as we go ahead,” says Choudhry.

    Incablenet offers subscribers digital STBs at Rs 1500 (plus taxes) while cable TV subscription is free for six months on three bouquet packages. Home Cable, on the other hand, has an outright purchase scheme with the STB priced at Rs 2150. It offers 10 pay channels on a monthly subscription fee of Rs 45 while the 60-channel package is available for Rs 225.

    “Smaller MSOs in the Cas areas will find it difficult to subsidise the boxes and will take support of the bigger ones. Besides, they do not have enough boxes and know that any delay will mean that their subscribers will go away to other available options,” says an analyst who tracks the cable industry.

    Earlier, Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL) had expanded its footprint in Delhi by acquiring a 51 per cent stake in Satellite Channels and signing up with Spectranet and Sanjay Cable Network for supplying digital services.

    In Kolkata, Sristi Broadband takes the feed from Manthan Cable Network. A group of operators of Sristi Cable TV are using the feed from Mathan and Zee’s Indian Cable Net as it could not make arrangements for STBs.

    “Sristi Broadband and a group of operators from Sristi Cable are taking feed from us,” says Manthan director Gurmeet Singh. Manthan has recently introduced a package for the second TV set where subscribers will have to pay Rs 90 a month for 50 pay channels. Manthan’s STB costs Rs 2599.

  • WWIL acquires 51 per cent in Delhi MSO for CAS

    WWIL acquires 51 per cent in Delhi MSO for CAS

    MUMBAI: Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL) is expanding its footprint in Delhi. The demerged cable company of Zee Group has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Satellite Channels, a multi-system operator (MSO) who was operating in the Cas (conditional access system) notified area of Delhi, for an undisclosed amount.

    WWIL has also signed up with Spectranet and Sanjay Cable Network. All these MSOs were disqualified for Cas as they were found not ready by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for making the switchover to addressable system by 31 December.

    “We have bought 51 per cent in Satellite Channels and have signed up with Spectranet and Sanjay Cable Network,” WWIL CEO Jagjit Kohli tells Indiantelevision.com.

    Earlier, WWIL had acquired control over 5 Star which operates in Andheri, a western suburb of Mumbai. Kohli claims to have added 250,000 subscribers in recent months through aggressive acquisitions. WWIL is offering to cable operators a valuation of Rs 2,000-3,000 per subscriber where it will hold 51 per cent stake.

    “However, our focus now is to roll out the digital boxes. We will be soon introducing various packages,” Kohli says.

    WWIL will introduce a combo package where consumers who buy STBs on outright purchase and take annual subscription will be offered an attractive subsidy, Kohli says. This scheme will make available 100 TV channels. “We will be offering under this at least 20 pay channels. We will be subsiding the boxes,” he adds, while declining to spell out the pricing structure of the package.

    WWIL’s initial fund requirement is Rs 5 billion and the company plans to invest Rs 7.14 billion over two years. “We have already lined up a debt of Rs 2.15 billion,” Kohli says.

    WWIL is likely to list by mid-January or early February, he adds.