Tata Communications has extended its global data roaming services to mobile customers through Cyberpass and Tata Indicom subscribers can now roam across 160 countries with a single login internet access.

This roaming service available to Tata Indicom post-paid (mobile, Walky and data card) subscribers will allow users to access the Internet through dial-up, broadband or from Wi-Fi zones, across the world, using a single login and password enabled by Cyberpass.

“This is a pioneering service introduced by Tata Indicom, another amongst the host of “firsts” offered to the customers. It brings together not only the comfort of a hassle–free and secure billing process, but also the calculations of the bill being in Indian Rupees in spite of international roaming. It further reduces the limitations of availing Tata Indicom services to enhance customer experience,” said Pradeep Dwivedi, Senior Vice President-Marketing, Tata Teleservices Limited.

This Global Data Roaming Service can be activated through a simple registration process at the Tata Indicom and Cyberpass websites. Once registered, the user can download the dialer from the Tata Indicom website for a log-in across the globe. While on roaming at an overseas Wi-Fi zone, a customer can login through the dialer after selecting the appropriate service provider from the dropdown list, and start surfing.

Users will also be able to view their Global Roaming Usage by going in to the “My Usage” sub section in the “Cyberpass” website.

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Web video site YouTube will be profitable for Google Inc in the near future, the Internet search leader said on Thursday.

Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, but has lost money on the site that lets people post and share videos free. Analysts have raised concerns about the huge costs involved in streaming millions of videos with only a tiny swathe of them being supported by advertising. “YouTube is now on a trajectory that we’re very pleased with,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said during an earnings call on Thursday. He added that Google is helping marketers and advertising agencies create “great ads easily” for YouTube. Google executives have recently made bullish remarks on YouTube’s revenue growth. Schmidt told reporters at the Sun Valley technology and media conference this month that new advertising formats, such as pre-roll ads that appear before a Web video program, will draw in more revenue. On Thursday, Google’s head of product management and marketing, Jonathan Rosenberg, said “monetized views” – people viewing videos that are supported by advertising – more than tripled in the past year. “We’re now monetizing billions of views of partner videos every month,” he said. In response to an analyst question, Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette said recent efforts to introduce new ad formats and promote videos have helped to establish YouTube’s home page among advertisers as relevant and “desirable for customers.” “We’re really pleased both in terms of (YouTube’s) revenue growth, which is really material to YouTube, and… in the not long, too-long-distant future, we actually see a very profitable and good business for us,” Pichette said.

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