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ashleigh

Hey,

Does anyone know how to start a broadband company in india?? What is the procedure and is there any licence fee for it, if so how much will that. Or where can i find info regarding it. Is there any website to get info??

Replies awaited....

Ashleigh..

Admin

I dont get your point.. when you say starting a broadband company do you mean setting up an isp? or a franchise for an isp who is already providing services?

If you are not a resident of India or yours is a company registered outside India you will have to have an Indian partner unfortunately..

Yes you have to have a liscence to start providing services and if you are planning on adsl services you will have to set up your own exchanges and lay your own cables as the government run bsnl and mtnl dont allow last mile sharing like they do in other countries.

Do give me a shout if you need any more information regarding this.

ashleigh

Hello Admin,

Thx for your reply.. What i exactly i mean is, I want to provide Wireless Internet which does not need the use of cables. All it needs is a base station and receiver on the user side. With that i also want to get a data center running, which would make sense like most service providers in Europe. Basically i have 3 questions.

1. I will be a wireless ISP, Do i still have to pay the license?
2. If i only plan to setup a Data Center for Hosting Purpose, Does the license fee still apply?
3. Does the government give any guarantee for the power supply. ( I can't bee down the whole day in Summer )

In General can u pls comment on setting up a Hosting Data center in India!! Does it have any market? If not now in the near future.

Once again thx for your help dude.

Ashleigh

Admin

1. I will be a wireless ISP, Do i still have to pay the license?

• Wireless or with wires, you would still need a liscence and when you say wireless I am hoping you dont mean wimax! as I am in the que as well and its been a year and a half now since ive been running pillar to post and to be honest This is not the right time to enter the market so I am holding up for now will wait another year.

2. If i only plan to setup a Data Center for Hosting Purpose, Does the license fee still apply?

• I am not too sure about how the liscencing goes with data centres but in India you need to pay a few people under the table to get things going or else youll be standing there at the doors for years and your files will just gather dust on some assholes table

3. Does the government give any guarantee for the power supply. ( I can't bee down the whole day in Summer )

Government does not guarantee power supply anywhere in India and nor do the private distributors in their respective areas. Electricity prices are more then double as compared to UK and where I am living I get at least two power cuts daily without notice of two hours each. No compensation for the power cuts either as its a norm here.
Almost all big businesses have their own big ass diesel gen sets for backup and they have inventors for crucial equipment.

For a data center I am not sure how they back up their power but I know of at least three data centers so they must be running some how..

This is a good time to set up a data centre if you can keep your costs low and provide hosting to high end businesses which currently host in USA . International bandwidth prices are higher then you can ever imagine thats why Indian hosting is not in demand. I would be the first one to get hosting from you here in India if you can provide me at even double the price I pay at present for my boxes at layeredtech

Do give me a shout if I have forgotten to answer anything.

ashleigh

Ooooh is it so... that is a long time waitin dude....

Is it because the way the system works or you been held for some other reason??? What kind of a license did you apply for?? I done a bit of research and found out the three kinds of license. Cat. A, B And C

Yes i am planning to setup the wimax. WISP... IN case if i go ahead and apply for the license now, how long do you think i will get approved. I believe that there is some 2 crores, 20 lakhs and 3 lakhs fee(bank Security) to be paid. Now do we have to pay that money and wander the next 2yrs waiting for the license??? or do i have to pay this fee after i get approved?? it's Non-sense.

I am not too into Data center stuff in India, as taking the factors like Power and International Bandwidth. You go abt investing large amounts of money and you don't get expected returns, then that will be a waste of time.

Ur good Thx for all the info dude.

Ashleigh.

Admin

The waiting is over now, It was due to the government being lazy on deciding the spectrum to be used by wimax operators and the Indian army sitting on a large chunk of spectrum which is internationally available for commercial use.
These issues have now been resolved and I am not waiting on some problems which are inherent with the wimax setups and a few players are working on them right now so I am waiting for those major issues to be resolved before I step in

By the time those issues will be resolved .. Reliance wimax will have earned a very bad name and so will bsnl's wimax which is due to be rolled out very very soon.

dxnation

Nice to see a discussion on setting up an WISP in india.

Let me give you some of my inputs and would appreciate any comments and suggestions from admins and other members as well.

I will be launching an WISP in Gujarat by another 2 weeks time. Let me give u details of my setup.

Basic Requirement for an WISP:
1. A high rise building or top of a hilly area for better LOS. (in my case I acquired an office on a 11 storeyed building and built up a tower on its rooftop).

2. A robust hardware for your base station snd a good data center.
--> Wireless equipment with a long range (you can use 2.4 / 5.8 Ghz devices).
--> Managable Switch (Cisco is recommended)
--> Authentication Server
--> User and Billing Server
--> Power Supply System (I have one which offers 8 hours of supply)
--> Media Converters.
--> Networking Tools

3. Bandwidth from a good gateway. (few of them even share the licenses, so that u won't need to get into those licensing issues).

NOTE: the whole game depends on the wireless devices that you use, so make sure you have the right equipmnets for your business.

Admin, do correct me if I have gone wrong anywhere.

Regards,
-DX

rahulk22

Hey dxnation,

Thanks for the detail info. I am very much serious about this business and want to start my own WISP in thane. I need to talk to you more regarding this.

Raghav_K

One line answer : By paying lots of bribes

Dragon

good one

JVsihag

Hi Dxnataion.

what u pay for wimax spectrum.

did u use free band or paid.

what license fee for paid spectrum in india.

thanks

gtronix

Im also planning to start my broadband services in punjab... Acc. To me we need to get permission from d.o.t for gateway access and there's a security and fees for the same...

Actually... Im planning for lan broadband..

In which only single p.c can serve 250 approx clients

can anybody tellme harware req. For dsl and approx. Cost for setup??????//