MTNL enters into strategic partnership with AOL

MUMBAI: Broadband and telecommunications service provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has entered into a partnership with AOL, America's leading web service provider, to bring its products and content to India.

The products and content would be available to MTNL's broadband customers through a co-branded portal called mtnl.aol.in, MTNL Executive Director J Gopal told reporters on Tuesday.

MTNL has a broadband user base of 5 lakhs in both Delhi and Mumbai.

The portal would have news and entertainment content, videos on movies, news and sports, pictures, chat messenger and unlimited mail storage.

Both the players would share advertisement revenue. About 35 per cent of the ad revenue would go to MTNL and the rest to AOL.

MTNL said here it has a backlog for 30,000 new broadband users and it would be cleared in the next two months.

It plans to add another 10 lakh mobile connections by March 2008, Gopal said.