BSNL introduces 'Games on Demand'

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Bangalore, Jan 13 (UNI) The Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), country's largest broadband provider in the country, today launched the 'Games on Demand' an initiation of the process of delivering content over Broadband, here today.

Speaking on the occasion, BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Mr S K Sinha said that the company which is observing 2007 as the 'Year of Broadband' had taken several steps for massive expansion of broadband networking throughout the country.

He said that the 'Games on Demand' was a value added service to the DataOne broadband customers by the BSNL in association with M/S India Games. The new service to begin with offers a catalogue of over 300 popular international titles including 'Age of Empires II, Brian Lara's Cricket, the Lara Croft tomb Raider Series, IGI 2 Covert Strike and Taca Race Driver and the games content would be enriched by adding new features every month, he added.

He said that the services would be made available free of cost for first 15 days from today and later in two versions of Standard Plan for a monthly charge of Rs 100 and another Premium Plan for monthly charge of Rs 200. The Data download on the Games On Demand service will be billed on flat charge basis as not on download basis, he clarified.

Mr Sinha said that the DataOne Broadband Service was available in over 700 cities and towns all over the country with a subscriber base of over 8,40,000.

Mr Sinha said that BSNL has set a target to add another five million broadband Internet connections and adequate infrastructure were being upgraded.

He said that the projected on-line games market in the country was expected to touch over three Billion US Dollars in Asia Pacific countries with a growth rate of over 16 per cent per year. The Online-games market in India was expected to touch over USD 200 Million.

"The high quality online gaming and 'Games On Demand' Services currently being launched will go a long way in meeting the entertainment needs of the customers" he added.

UNI

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