In a country constantly looking for reliable and economical communications media, the GOI VSAT in the industry with great hope is finally a little early. P R Srikanth reports –

The government has adopted the decision to amend the license from a model to a fixed fee revenue sharing model requires an emergency response to the stimulation of industry

VSAT providers are no longer positioning VSAT connections only as a carrier, but they are now to the development of new and innovative value-added applications

Joyjit Chatterji, VSATs said, most reliable and cost effective solutions to connect to the central money ATMs ATM

Regarding the potential market, India is one of the largest markets for service VSAT. Immense geographical distribution, telecommunications low density, and a strong demand for the reliable communications infrastructure (due to lack of communication infrastructure inherited from the authorities of the state enterprises), culminated in a VSATs are a normal choice of India.

VSATs for the first time in India in the mid-1980’s, within the circle of the Central and state capitals were in the context of the use of NICNET New Delhi, India’s first network using VSATs. Real growth was in the year 1995, when the industry was opened to private players. But a number of roadblocks have resulted in the area of combating recipe, and it is only now that things are on the rise once again for VSAT Player.

Political changes
Some of the recent political changes has been extremely beneficial to the industry. The government has adopted the decision to amend the license from a model to a fixed fee revenue sharing model in view of the urgent need of inspiration for the industry. Past for each VSAT installed, services providers had to pay a fixed fee of 50000, but with the case of the new policy, service to the consumer, only 10 per cent of their revenue from fees .

In addition, the government has adopted the decision to allow the use of the Ku-band satellites inspired from abroad has grown continuously. The government has also the abolition of 64 kilobits per second of bandwidth and accessibility, it amounts to 512 kilobits per second. These positive developments came as a breath of fresh air for the beleaguered industry, which responded with a growth rate of 25 per cent in 2001-02.

Is IV, Rajesh, General Manager of HCL Comnet, “The transitional government of the licence raj revenue sharing has been a great blessing for the VSAT industry. Previously, manufacturers of the disaster during the year before, which represents an increase of less than a Percent.