(24 June 2006 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: The Rajan Raheja promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom, in which Star India has a 26 per cent stake, has launched its broadband service in Chandigarh.

Apart from cable internet services, Hathway is also planning to launch digital cable in the city.

The company has launched a mix of pre-paid and post paid packages to provide choice to the customers. The packages will be available from 256 kbps for Rs 250 per month (download limit of 400 mb) and 512 kbps for Rs 500 per month (download limit of 1 gb), according to an official release.

The company is targeting residential, small medium enterprises and corporates. Hathway's broadband services are available in the cities of Mumbai, New Delhi, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Pune, Nashik, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mysore and Chandigarh.

"We are planning to launch our cable internet services in Kanpur as well. We have close to 90,000 broadband subscribers," says Hathway & Cable Datacom CEO K Jayaraman.