Originally incorporated as Surana Petroproducts Pvt Ltd in Aug.'89, Surana Telecom became a public limited company in Jul.'93. The company acquired its present name on 5 Aug.'94. The company is promoted by G M Surana, G P Surana, Narendra Surana and Devendra Surana. It belongs to the Surana group of companies. The company is engaged in the manufacture of heat-shrinkable jointing kits, cable splicing/filling compounds, Jelly filled telecommunication cables, wire connectors, end caps, modular connectors and HDPE pipes. Its products cater to the telecommunication sector. In Nov.'94, the company diversified into the manufacture of optical fibre cables. It set up facilities with an installed capacity of 4000 FKM pa at the existing premises at Cherlapally near Hyderabad. The technical assistance for the production of optical fibres is from Rosendahl, a 100% subsidiary of Alcatel. Commercial production commenced in Jul.'95. The company has a tie-up with Amritsu, Japan, for the manufacture of PCM and optical test equipment. It has also entered into the manufacture of other telecommunication products like drop wire connectors and other products.STL exports to Thailand, Germany and Portugal. Company has plan to increase the installed capacity of Jelly Filled Telephone Cables for improving sales & Profitability of company. Company has received orders from PIJF cables for 22 Crores from DOT. Company has offered 14,00,000 Shares out of its Shareholding to Bhagyanager Metal Ltd for buyback by company. During the year 1999-2000, the Company has increased its installed capacity for jelly filled Telephone Cable to 10 LCKM and the next phase of expansion to 12.5 LCKM is underway. The installed capacity of the Optic Fibre cable has also been increased to 6000 Route Km, These expansions have been funded wholly out of internal accruals. The Company has applied to the Department of Telecommunications, for Licence for providing Internet Services. The Company has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Sriven Multitech Limited, for setting up a joint venture company, for providing multimedia applications and broadband network of touchscreen kiosks providing information and entertainment content. The company is in the process of establishing a manufacturing facility at Goa for the manufacture of Jelly Filled Telephone Cables, Jointing Kits, Optical Fibre Cable and Optical Devices. The company has commenced the trial production of it's Gao facility in the year 2000-01. The company has received fresh orders worth Rs.30 crores for supply of Jelly Filled Telephone Cables and Optical fibre Cables which has to be executed by April 2005. The company has also moved into the Handheld segment and has offered CDMA colour display handheld terminals to MTNL.STL is also setting up facilities to manufacture switch mode power supply based battery chargers which can increase the talk time by nearly seven times as against the conventional battery in case of power failures. The company is also entering into various products in the Broad Band Digital Loop Carrier and shall be in the front end technology partner in the various requirements of BSNL & MTNL.