In a bid to quicken customer traffic, Wipro Net Ltd on Monday announced the launch of Internet services in Hyderabad, offering premium services like five e-mail IDs for each connection, free home installation and mail manager for every mail ID and 5MB space. The introduction of Netkracker ISP in Hyderabad is expected to increase the number of Internet connections of the subsidiary of Wipro Net to seven lakhs by 2004.
The launch of the Netkracker ISP in Hyderabad is the first in Andhra Pradesh. The company is planning to expand its presence in 15 cities in the country and focus on retail customer. The company presently had home and small office market in the city totaling 25,000 connections, which was expected to grow to 4,30,000 by 2004. Following the launch of Netkracker ISP in Hyderabad, the company looks forward to launch its services in Visakhapatnam shortly.

Hyderabad is the eleventh city in the country to launch Netkracker ISP. The other cities are Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jamshedpur, Baroda and Coimbatore. Bureau Report