The company is in the business of providing broadband Internet access infrastructure in Hotels, office complexes and apartments. Consilnet has recently signed an agreement with Satyam Infoway for Internet access to their networks. When contacted, a director of Consilnet India, Mr Pankaj G Thakar confirmed that the company has plans to acquire an ISP licence for the redundancy purpose. "We do not have any immediate plans to enter into ISP market. We have tied up with Satyam for Internet access to our projects and will continue the partnership," he said.

The ISP approval is being sought to keep it handy whenever we need it in future, said Mr Thakar adding: "The ISP market today is very volatile and mergers and acquisitions keep happening everyday. We want to be prepared for any adverse circumstances as bandwidth will a life line for our operations."Explaining the business model of Consilnet, Mr Thakar said that the company sets up a broadband infrastructure with all necessary equipments in Hotel with its own investments and charges the guests as per their Internet usages on a revenue sharing basis with the Hotel. The similar models is followed for apartments and business complexes.

Mr Thakar claims that the cost of setting up such a network works out to around Rs 50,000 per room or connection and could be covered in 20-24 months as per the usages.

He claimed that the company has already installed its network in around 800 rooms in all spread into several Indian hotels including Park Royal and Crown Plaza in Delhi.

Consilnet is also planning to expand its business in Middle East countries and South Africa. "We are focussing on developing countries as there is going to be a huge demand of broadband infrastructure in near future and later we will also explore the markets in Europe," said Mr Thakar.Consilnet is a US-based company floated by three Indians and its Indian operations were started in September 2000. The company is funded by the promoters of Juniper Networks, who have already invested around $1 million in the company and have committed to invest total $30 million as and when required by the company, said Mr Thakar.