Thursday, April 27, 2006

Sify expands i-way cyber cafe chain

Sify, a consumer internet provider in India, announced that it has expanded its I-Way cyber cafe chain from 95 to 153 cities during the past year. The company added 836 new I-Way cafes during the year.

Over the past year, Sify has begun to expand its chain to smaller cities and towns in addition to large urban centres, 'in keeping with our objective of taking broadband connectivy to the masses,' as Sify official Sushil Luniya put it.

Sify has also expanded the number of I-Way cyber cafes with services besides internet browsing. The number of I-Way cafes with internet telephony capabilities has been expanded from 1,500 to 2,500 over the past year, during which time internet telephony usage in the cafes has grown by about 60 per cent.

Sify has also doubled the number of PCs dedicatd to online gaming to 6,000, resulting in a 100 per cent increase in the number of gaming hours logged at I-Way cafes. The company also introduced online railway ticket booking this year, which has been very popular, the company said.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What ever they spend with the kind of attitude and service they have they will never gonna to prosper in this part of the world.I really fed up with their work and their care for customers.