telecom overview by dr t.h. chowdary director: center for telecom management and studies chairman:...
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Telecom OverviewBy
DR T.H. CHOWDARYDirector: Center for Telecom Management and Studies
Chairman: Pragna Bharati (intellect India )Former: Chairman & Managing Director
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited &Information Technology Advisor, Government of Andhra Pradesh
T: +91(40) 6667-1191/ 2784-6137(O) 2784-3121®F: +91 (40) 6667-1111, 2789-6103
[email protected]@satyam.com
Talk @ Beijing University, Beijing, China
Presentation # I INDIA OVER VIEW (b) Telecoms
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NAMASKAR 你好
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Telecom Overview
• 41 licenced private companies besides the state-owned MTNL and BSNL in 23 licenced areas
• Total number of P-Telcos providing services are 12• Licences for all inland telephone services are state-wide• National long-distance (NLD) & international subscriber
dialing (ISD) are whole country• Some P-Telcos operate only cellular mobile telephone
services• Some only in a few states• State-owned MTNL operators only in 2 cities ( Delhi&
Mumbai)• Some ISPs have taken NSD & ISD licences to cover
their VPN services
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Telecom Overview
• Department of Telecoms (DOT) (Ministry of Communications & IT) is the Policy maker & licensor
• Telecom Commission consists of some officers of the DOT (full time) and 3 from other Ministries ( Finance, Planning & Personnel)
• Telecom Engineering Center (TEC) is the specifications & standards unit in the DOT.
• C-DOT is the R&D arm jointly funded & administered by the DOT & D.I.T
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Telecom Overview
• Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) is the state-owned manufacturing company under the administrative control of the DOT.
• The state-owned BSNL/MTNL are having 95% of the local loop for the 39.5 mln fixed lines
• BSNL/MTNL have a telephone market share of 28% of the 250 mln phone; their share is declining.
• There are 3 long distance band-width only ( on O.F cables) providers – National Power Grid Corporation, Rail Tel & ONGC
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Telecom Overview
• ISRO’s INSAT (Indian Satellite) enterprise sells bandwidth for telecoms ( and TV broadcasters)
• 3 Telcos (VSNL; Bharati & Reliance – all private) own undersea cables providing global connectivity
• There are 130 active Internet Service Provider (ISPs) offering dial-up to broad-band; their number can be unlimited; they provide VPN, NLD & ISD; VOIP etc. services. (more than 400 were licensed but they are ineffective)
• CDMA using companies have, as of Sept 2004, 54 mil users
• GSM using companies have 152 mln subscribers• Fixed (wired & wireless) subscribers are 39 mln.
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Telecom Overview
• Optical Fiber transmission systems of 650,000 route kms connect about 6000 towns.
• Coaxial ( 35,000 Rkm) and terrestrial microwave ( 65,000 RKM) are frozen
• No more construction since 1997• ISPs are deploying WiFi in cities• Some state governments like Andhra Pradesh
and Gujarat have dedicated State Wide Area Networks ( SWANs) for their e-governances schemes.
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Teledensity
Metros
(4 cities)
Other Urban ( about 6000
towns)
Rural
85% 55% 2.3%
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Telecom Overview
• Internet Service Providers (ISPs) - Licences issued >400
• Internet Kiosks: 100,000 • Internet Subscribers: Dial-up: 9.3 million Broad-band: 2.5m(for 256 kbps-2.0 mln & 2MBP -0.5 mln)
• Users: 50 mln [over 35 mln access Internet thro cell-phones]
• Telcos Revenues: $ 31.0 bln/yr• Telcos Investments $ 10 bln/yr• BSNL/MTNL share 28% (declining) of telephones
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Mobile Subscribers
• Prepaid : 85%• Churn : 15%• ARPU/month
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Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
$ 29.31 24.73 19.64 14.08 11.68 9.50 8.33 7.44
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Sale of Cell Phones
Year 2001 ‘05 ‘06 ’07
mlns 2 31 74 90
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• PCs sold/year: 7 mln• PCs in use : 25 mln• There are 60,000 retailers of cell phones• A cell phone is changed on eh average in 9 months!• Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, LG are the leading vendors
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• Villages (habited) : 600,000• % Electrified : 87%• (public) telephoned : 92% (545/600,000)
Public Telephones:
• Along National Highways : 30,000 • Local only : 1.12 mln• NLD & ISD : 887,000• Telegraphs – dying : 12 mln/yr• Bureau FAX: BSNL : 0.7 mln
(declining)
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THANK YOU:DHANYAWAD
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