BSNL to introduce video calling on landlines in Chennai
Posted on: 20/Jul/2013 1:08:48 PM
BSNL will be shortly introducing video calling on landlines in Chennai. The Voice and Video on Broadband (VVoBB) service has already been launched in Delhi and a few other telecom circles of the BSNL. The VVoBB service allows users to go one-on-one or simultaneously connect to multiple users.
The VVoBB uses packet switching technology that converts phone calls into data packets and transmits them through a high-speed broadband connection via an exclusive Private Virtual Circuit (PVC). When voice and video data reach the other end, it is converted back into voice and video. Using an Analog Telephone Adaptor that connects to the broadband modem, a subscriber will be able to simultaneous work a normal phone, broadband Internet and video phone.
Not only is a broadband connection a pre-requisite, a customer needs to buy a video phone that does not come cheap. The V-fone is currently available in a base model of Rs. 14,900, a pricier variant of Rs. 24,900 and a high-end version of over Rs. 4 lakh.
BSNL, which has tied up with Gujarat-based Sai Info System (SIS) for supply of the video-phone instruments, also aims to press home a few other advantages such as free incoming video calls, zero bandwidth charges for video calls, no freezing of videos, no need to log in to a computer, or for that matter, no need for a computer itself.
