With a target of 9 million broad band connections in the next couple of years, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Chennai based IT company Novatium introduced a low cost computer named 'Nova Net PC' . The Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL, Kuldeep Goyal said that the total number of broad band users were only 5.25 million, which was less than 1 percent of the population. In developed societies this was 60% or more.