Atria Convergence Technologies Limited, branded as ACT, is an Indian

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company headquartered in

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

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. ACT offers fibre to the home (FTTH) services under the brand name "ACT Fibernet" and

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services under the "ACT Digital" brand. The company provides services in

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and

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. ACT was the fifth largest internet service provider in India as of January 2021. As on 31 March 2022, ACT was the fourth largest wired

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service provider in India with over 20

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(2 million) subscribers.

History

Atria Convergence Technologies Limited was founded in 2000 by Sunder Raju in Bengaluru. Private equity firm India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) acquired a majority stake in the company in 2008. In 2009, the company acquired Beam Telecom Pvt. Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Beam Telecom was founded by Brijesh Chandwani in 2004, and offered broadband services in

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

under the brand name Beam Fiber. ACT acquired an additional 20% stake in Beam Telecom in June 2014, raising its total stake in the company to 80%. In July 2014, ACT rebranded its broadband service from ACT Broadband to ACT Fibernet. ACT continued to operate services in Hyderabad under the Beam Fiber name until 2015. On 16 February 2015, ACT announced that it was merging Beam Telecom Pvt. Ltd into itself, and would offer wire-line optical fibre broadband services in Hyderabad under the ACT Fibernet name. On the same day, ACT announced the launch of 100 Mbit/s plans.

Expansion plans

On 22 July 2016, ACT made its presence in the capital city of Delhi, with the launch of four plans and highest speed of 100 Mbps. On 30 March 2017, ACT launched 1 Gbit/s wired broadband plans in Hyderabad, becoming the first ISP in India to offer practically

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speeds. It also announced plans to introduce the gigabit speed to other cities. By July, the company was in talks with other ISP providers to increase its presence in the country, while also installing 1,000 WiFi hotspots in

as part of the 'City WiFi Project'. ACT Fibernet expanded its presence by launching services in

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in September 2018 and

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in October 2018. In 2019, ACT expanded its services to

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and

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

References

External links

Official website
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