YOU Telecom Unveils VoIP Plans for India

Recently rebranded Internet service provider, YOU Telecom has unveiled its plans for enhancing VoIP options for Indians. In addition to ‘YOU Call’, its ultra low cost VoIP scheme, the ISP has unveiled plans to launch a Video IP phone for the Indian market within 4 months. The Video IP phone will be imported from a Taiwanese manufacturing unit at a price of Rs 17,000, tentatively on January 14, 2007.

YOU telecom is also in talks with major telecom providers to interconnect and integrate services in 11 Indian cities, to enable IP calling between them. This will allow YOU telecom to create an online directory to connect all its users in a network to allow unmetered IP calling between them, at a flat rate of RS 199 per month.

YOU call already offers an IP phone, which is a plug-and-play device to make international calls such as US and UK for as low as Rs.1.25/- per minute. The IP phone comes at a price of Rs 2,700 or Rs 99 per month for rent, with a deposit of Rs 15,000. The service already has 450 subscribers across 11 Indian cities.

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EVS Chakravarthy, CEO of YOU telecom said, “YOU is looking forward to increasing subscribership to around 10,000 in 12 months.” He added that the future of IP telephony looks bright in India, with growing number of Small and Medium business Enterprises (SMEs) and small scale BPOs. He also said that the telecom company is considering the launch of a device which will enable video conferencing via a television set, in the near future.