STD booths to offer high-tech services soon
By Our Convergence Bureau | 04 Sep 2002
Bangalore:
STD booths
are all set to render high-tech services with a range
of, among other, facilities for electricity and water
bill payment, Internet telephony and point-to-point video
conferencing.
STD booth-owners
from across India have joined hands to form All India
Sanchar Seva PCO Society, which will upgrade the existing
booths into hi-tech service centres. This was announced
by the societys chairman, Surjeet Singh Kungar, at a
press conference here.
The society has decided to upgrade about 22,500 booths in about 63 cities across the country on an experimental basis starting 26 January 2003. In Bangalore, as many as 1,200 of a total of 16,000 booths will be upgraded under the pilot test.
In order to provide these services, the society has tied up with various organisations such as Tata Consultancy Services and Sun Microsystems.