About Railtel Corporation of India Ltd IPO
Railtel Corporation of India is an information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure provider and one of the largest neutral telecom infrastructure providers in India (Source: CRISIL Report). The company is Mini Ratna (Category-I) Central Public Sector Enterprise, wholly-owned by the GoI and under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways. It was incorporated on September 26, 2000 with the aim of modernizing the existing telecom system for train control, operation and safety and to generate additional revenues by creating nationwide broadband and multimedia network by laying optical fiber cable by using the right of way along railway tracks.
As of January 31, 2021, it had exclusive right of way along 67,415 route kilometers connecting 7,321 railway stations for laying optical fiber cable. Its optical fiber network covers 59,098 route kilometers and also covers 5,929 railway stations across towns and cities in India. It also operates data center in Gurugram, Haryana and Secunderabad, Telangana to host and collocate critical applications for customers including the Indian Railways. Railtel also undertakes various ICT projects for the Indian Railways, central government and state governments, including various train control system projects for Indian Railways.
It provides a diverse range of services across industries and its portfolio of services can be broadly classified as:
Telecom
- National Long Distance (NLD) services which is mainly bandwidth leasing & VPN services to its enterprise customers like Government departments and customers, MNCs, Telecom operators and MSOs.
- Internet Service Provider (ISP) Services where it provides nationwide internet & broadband services to ISPs, Educational Institutions and various Government departments. It also offers retail broadband services through the RailWire platform.
- Passive Infrastructure (IP-1) Services which can be classified as leasing of tower (to wireless communication providers) and dark fiber.
- Managed Data Center and Hosting Services which covers IaaS, Colocation Services, Managed services, Cloud Computing, Managed e-Office, videoconferencing service (TPaaS) and Security Operations Centre as a Services.
Projects (System Integration Services)
- ICT Hardware, Software and Service System Integration Projects which covers ICT hardware implementation, software delivery and digital transformation projects including creation of state wide area network and its maintenance, data center and facility management services, Wi-Fi projects, city surveillance projects, laying of state wide fiber optic network and its maintenance, implementation and maintenance of end-to-end IT applications of enterprises.
- Digital Services where it collaborates with partners who offer solutions/ applications that are hosted on its data centers
- Other Services include consultancy services for ICT services and solutions and signaling services including signal design and design automation software tools for the Indian Railways.
As per the management, the Government client account for 60-65% of the revenue and the private sector, which also includes fortune 500 companies account for 35-40% of the revenues.