[1] Introduction: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the India’s number one Internet Service Provider with Category A License (countrywide presence) offers Internet Service under the brand name of Sancharnet. The total registered customer base under Sancharnet has touched the figure of seven lakhs as on 15/07/2004.

In addition, to proliferate Internet penetration, BSNL has started CLI based Accountless Internet Service, also called as pay as per use, under revenue sharing arrangement with the franchisee. The service is presently operational in 35 cities, catering to more than four lakhs customer, with plan to extend the same to 100 cities in the current financial year.

As part of the franchisee agreement, BSNL will provide the RAS port and the Connectivity to Internet while the franchisee has to supply the software solution including the hardware for running the application, for registration, Billing and RADIUS. The percentage share of franchisees varies from 8% for large cities to 17% for small cities. The revenue share is calculated on the total logged minutes with access charge as 10 paisa per minute.

[2] Technical Description: The technical description of the service is given below.

2.1        ACCOUNTLESS CLI based Internet is for providing access to Internet for BSNL'S PSTN subscribers only. The access will be normal charging on the telephone lines. The system will be integrated with the existing NIB. The authentication will be done locally. Any Customer who is having a BSNL'S PSTN connection will be able to access this Internet Service without requiring Internet account with ISP, pre-activation or renewal. Access will be provided to the registered users.

2.2      The System requirement:

2.2.1        The system will be in a position to give the access to any caller from BSNL's  PSTN line with the specific access code, 172222.

2.2.2        The system should interact with any RAS running on standard protocols.

2.2.3        The system should be in a position to capture the CLI of the caller from the RAS and store the records including IP address used, start time, duration etc.

2.2.4        System should be in a position to allow the new customers to visit a WEB site for on-line registration. Subsequent login to the system may authenticate subscriber directly based on his CLI and password.

2.2.5        The system will provide only local authentication and billing based on duration. It will utilize the resources of RAS, Router at NIB for Internet access and Gateway.

2.2.6        Similar System should be in working condition in India/ abroad for three months and supporting 20,000 subscribers.

2.3      Registration:

2.3.1        On dialing, the new user will be able to open only registration website which is hosted locally at the Service Provider’s Web Server. The registration will be based on the CLI of the caller. The CLI up to 14 digits will be the USERNAME.

2.3.2        The system should provide minimum 25 fields during registration for entry by the caller intending to register. There will be mandatory fields. If mandatory fields are not filled, subscriber registration will not be allowed.

2.3.3        Through this WEB site, the new user will register his own password in a confirmation mode. There will be provision for re-registering password in case it is forgotten, on the basis of KEY WORDS supplied at the time of registration.

2.4      Authentication:

2.4.1        The system should identify the registered customers on the basis of CLI captured by the system.

2.4.2        The registered caller on dialing the access code will be authenticated by the franchisee server based on the CLI (Username) and the password.

2.4.3        The system will only allow one access at a time based on CLI. Wrong password will be rejected by the system.

2.4.4        The system should be in a position to process more than 2 lacs database entries for authentication purpose daily.

2.4.5        System should provide the IP address allocated to Caller ID and related  necessary information for cyber crime inquiry as per ISP license conditions

2.5       Billing:

2.5.1        The system should use standard RDBMS and should process more than 30 lacs CDRs in a month. The format of the CDRs should be such that it can be processed by the billing system of the SSA. Any modification in hardware/ Software should be incorporated free of cost by the Franchisee.

2.5.2        The accounting will be done by the billing Server, which will generate the CDR depending upon the usage in minutes of Internet usage.

2.5.3        The system should be in a position to supply total usage minute against any CLI (Username) in a specified duration.

2.5.4        The CDR generated by the billing Server will be integrated into the existing Billing System of BSNL for charging to the customer in their Telephone bill.

2.5.5        There will be provision to take the back up of the CDR data at the minimum interval of 1 day.

2.5.6        Additional utility for post processing the CDR based on CLI or time stamp should be supported.

2.5.7        Billing information should be available online to the subscriber

2.5.8        Discount or Rating should be available depending upon the time slots and day wise.  This information will be supplied by BSNL 30 days in advance.

2.5.9        Rating should be capable of parsing CDRs in real time basis but not on interval more than 10 minutes
 

[3] Contact Details: For more information, following officers may kindly be contacted.

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