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Telecommunications is the core of current technological revolution. itprocesses and interconnects information produced in all spheres of life.It only accelerates innovation but also diffuses this innovation into otherspheres of life.

They play a major role in productivity improvements of mostcompetitive economies. The current revolution in the field of telecommunications is as important as the invention of printing pressapproximately some five hundred and sixty years old.

Today we are witnessing a rapid development of telecommunicationstechnologies that is contributing to an equally important paradigm shiftof rapid dissemination of information. This shift is leading todecentralization of traditional economic markets throughout the world.



The telecommunications industry is at the forefront of the informationagedelivering voice, data, graphics and video at ever increasingspeeds and in an increasing number of ways.

Just as the railroads once promoted economic growth anddevelopment, telecommunications is now globalizing markets,reducing transactions costs, expanding productivity, and directly

increasing economic well being.

From the invention of telegraph in the year 1844 or that of telephone inthe year 1876 to the use of mobile phones and applications of internetand technologies such as GSM, Wi-fi, GPRS, broadband, CDMA andEDGE telecommunications industry has indeed come a long way.



TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITIES

y Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)

y Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal

(TDSAT)y National Telecom Policy (NTP)



IMPORTANT ASPECTSy China is the leading telecommunications service

provider market in the world.

y

India is ranked fifth in the world.y Asia¶s mobile industry has been one of the largest and

fastest-growing markets in the world.



LEADING GLOBAL PLAYERSy Orange (Europe)

y Vodaf one (Europe)

y Cingular wireless (USA)y Telstra (Australia)



Number of telephone connections 139.67million (March¶06)

Switching capacity 54.56 million

Village Public Telephones (VPT) 5,42,667 (Feb.¶06)

STD stations (BSNL) 31,889 (Nov.¶05)

Cellular subscribers 90 million (March,¶06)

Internet subscribers 67,03,256 (Dec.¶05)

TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS IN INDIA



MAJOR PLAYERSy BSNL

y BH ARTI AIRTEL LIMITED

y BPLHUTCHy RELIANCE TELECOM

y IDEA



BSNLy largest telecommunications provider and public

agency in India.

y World's 7th largest Telecommunications company.

y To become the largest telecom Service provider inSouth East Asia.

y Large plans of expansion.



BHARTI AIRTELy Customer base of over 14.42

y Bharti Airtel Limited , a part of Bharti Enterprises , is

India's leading provider of telecommunicationsservices

y Involved in variety of economic activities.

y 2010 Airtel will be the most admired brand in India ±

V ision.



HUTCHy Hutch is the brand name of Hutchison Essar .

y 16.67 million subscribers.

y Hutchison Telecom is a part of the multinationalconglomerate - Hutchison Whampoa.

y Essar Group is one of India's largest corporate houses.



RELIANCEy Provides GSM based basic and mobile services

y India¶s leading integrated telecommunication

company with over 25 million customers.y Services in 118 cities across 15 states mainly in the

central-eastern part of India.



MARKET SHARE



A fter the announcementof NewTelecom Policy 1999, progress intelecom in India has been extremely rapid.

In October 2004, mobile phones accounted f or 50 per cent of totalphones and the priv ate sector accounted f or 44 per centof total phones.

Present projections suggest that by the end of 2007, the total numberof phones could reach 250 million.

In the past two years, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) ha v e actually seen adecline in the numberof f ixed lines, while such lines ha v e gro wnin the priv ate sector. A t the same time, the PSUs actually gained market

share in mobile telephony, going from 3.98 per cent to 20.21 per cent

shareof the market. O v erall, the shareof PSUs declined from 90 percent to 55.6 per



W hile tele-density has risen sharply,India continues to lag far behind countries likeBrazil and China, where the tele-density is more than 40.

Inorder to catch up, there is a need to maintain vigorous competitiv e

eff orts in termsof public policy, rapidly shift to new technologies,encourage entry of new players, and driv e pricesdo wn throughcompetition.

India also lags behind the world to a considerable extent in the f ield of broadband telecom.

By 2007, the broadband subscribers would be 9 million. By the end of the year 2010, the policy aims to target 20 million broadband subscribers and 40 million Internet subscribers.

The Univ ersal Ser vice Obligation Fund (USOF) in Indias telecomsector is a unique institutional inno v ation which ensures pro visionof

ser vices at minimum cost in rural areas through a systemof openbidding.

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