Q1: Who are we ?
Q2: What do we do ?
Q3: What services do we provide ?
Q4: What other services are in the pipeline ?
Q5: What are our future plans ?

Who are we ? 
We are one of the fastest growing broadband services providing company in India. We were founded in 1995 as a spin-off joint-venture with Non-resident Indian (NRI) investors from a well-known industrial group. We have received capital infusion from a major financial institution i.e. ACTIS (formerly known as the
Commonwealth Development Corporation, UK), besides a small equity investment from the Orissa State Electronics Development Corporation (OSEDC). Our other stake holders are FINLAY Corporation Ltd., IPICOL & SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd.

What do we do ? 
We are a Triple Play (Data, Voice & Video) Service Provider in the state of Orissa. Our objective is to ride the second-generation of telecom reforms in India and provide Convergence related services through Broadband network i.e. Telecommunications, Broadcast, Media and InfoTech. Our first project is in the east-coast State of Orissa covering 6 cities at present, which we are operating on a state-of-the-art Hybrid Fiber Co-axial (HFC) telecom network.

What services do we provide ?
Our current services include:  
(i) Cable Television: Under the brand "SkyView Home Cable", we are the dominant service provider in the cities of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Paradip, Puri, Rourkela and Sambalpur providing more than 60 of the best television channels available (including "Pay Channels").
 

(ii) Internet Services: We were the first private company in the country to receive an ISP license in November 1998. Our broadband internet service through cable modem is already operational in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack & Rourkela and is being marketed under the brand "Ortel Broadband Services".

(iii) Voice Services:  We also provide Internet Telephony Service which is the latest addition to our services and is currently being provided to our customers in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. At present, we are undertaking the "Pilot project for Internet Telephony Services" in these cities with an aim to provide telephony services in Orissa at a much cheaper rate than that of the traditional telephony service providers. This service is due to be commercialized soon.

(iv) Television Channels: Our sister concern OTV produces and cablecasts two local origin TV channels under the brand 'OTV' & 'OTV Chamatkar' with its in-house news & current affairs programs and local origin entertainment & selected movies respectively.

What other services are in the pipeline ?
Our other services in the pipeline are Premium Tier Digital Cable TV, ASP (Application Service Provider), VPN (Virtual Private Network), Interactive Gaming, VoD (Video-on-Demand), HDTV (High Definition TV), etc.

What are our future plans ?
We plan to provide all kinds of telecom services through our HFC network to our customers and plan to extend our services to over a dozen locations in the state. We also plan to provide our service in selected captive townships outside Orissa. Our future growth plans include providing basic and mobile telephony services on the same network.

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