Hindu Business Line reports that five companies have bid for the rights to act as franchisees in the rollout of state-owned Indian telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd’s WiMAX services.
Of the five bids submitted, one has come from a major international player. Teracom, a turnkey solutions provider and one of India’s India’s leading manufacturers of power cables, conductors and fibre-optic cables is that company.
Despite the fact that BSNL has stipulated that all bidders must have a turnover of at least INR1 billion (USD21.5 million) in the last two financial years, the four other bidders were the relatively unknown. The quartet of E-Mall, Adishwar, Ampouls and Tech Solutions were the other bidders for the WiMax services. The companies have partnered with global WiMax equipment vendors in order to increase the liklihood that thier bids are accepted.
