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    SCRAP BOOKON

    TELECOM SECTOR

    Submitted By

    M Sufiyan Khan

    AFP 2012 13

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    TRAI puts govts plan to go for anotherauction on hold

    MIHIR MISHRA, SUBHOMOY BHATTACHARJEEPosted: Monday, Nov 26, 2012 at 0140 hrs IST

    New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has thrown the rule bookat the government saying it will not be possible to conduct another spectrum auctionwithin this fiscal. The government had planned to bring down the reserve price ofairwaves and carry out another auction to sell those bands which could not be sold in therecently-concluded 2G auctions, before March 2013.

    But quoting section 11(d) of the Telecom Broadcasting and Cable Law, the regulator hassaid it cannot revise its recommendations on spectrum pricing. According to itsprovisions, the government can ask TRAI to decide on any specific issue, only once. Ifthe government disagrees with the recommendations the regulator can be asked to re-

    visit the topic, but that too only once.

    High-level sources in the government said TRAI, under J S Sarma, had given itsrecommendation on the pricing of spectrum in April this year. The suggested price of Rs18,000 crore for a 5 Hz band had been sent back by the government for reconsiderationas it was considered too high. This too was deliberated by his successor, Rahul Khullar,and re-sent to the telecom department for a final decision.

    This means Sarmas recommendations cannot be sent back to TRAI for a fresh look. Butthis is necessary to reduce the price of spectrum as even the reduced price of Rs 14,000crore for a 5 Hz band did not find any takers in most telecom circles in the latest auctionsfor 800 MHz and 1800 MHz.

    Instead TRAI will now have to be asked to examine the matter afresh without anyreference to the existing recommendations. This means there will be a long procedure ofconsultations with the industry followed by a consultation paper and so on. The timelinewill stretch to at least four months at a conservative estimate, said a source.

    This will be welcome news for the existing telecom companies as they would have foundit difficult on their existing balance sheets to raise more loans to bid in another auction sosoon. But it is bad news for the government, which is hoping to raise additional non-taxmoney to meet its hugely challenging fiscal deficit.

    In the 2G auctions in November the government could sell only 101 out of the 176

    blocks of spectrum on offer. The metro cities of Delhi and Mumbai, which accounted for40 per cent of the base price of Rs 14,000 crore for 5 MHz of 2G spectrum, drew nobids. After the muted response, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has announced hisintention to bring down the base price for spectrum in circles which did not attract anybid. Delhi, Mumbai, Karnataka and Rajasthan did not get any bid. The governmentearned only Rs 9,407.64 crore from the recent auctions, much lower than the Rs 28,000crore that it was expecting on the basis of reserve price of total spectrum put to auctionat the rate of 8 blocks per circle.

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    Airtel, Vodafone & Idea want part of CDMAspectrum for GSM tech

    AGENCIES

    Posted: Sunday, Nov 25, 2012 at 1544 hrs IST

    New Delhi: Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular have demanded allocation of a partof CDMA spectrum in 800 Mhz band for GSM services.

    "We recommend that the 800 MHz spectrum band is harmonised with the internationalband plan to become part of an "extended" 900 MHz band; this will increase theavailability of spectrum in the 900 MHz band by up to 10 MHz (or over 40 per cent)," saida letter written by the three companies to DoT. The letter is signed by Bharti Airtel CEO(India and South Asia) Sanjay Kapoor, Idea Cellular Managing Director HimanshuKapania and Vodafone India MD and CEO Marten Pieters.

    At present, airwaves frequencies in 900 Mhz band are used for transmitting signals forGSM mobile services. The reach of signals transmitted in 900 Mhz band is around two-times more than that transmitted in 1,800 Mhz band, for which the government had fixeda base price of Rs 14,000 crore for 5 mhz pan-India spectrum in the recent auction.Telecom operators prefer 900 Mhz band as they need to deploy less telecom towerscompared to that in 1800 Mhz band.

    The CDMA spectrum provides more coverage than 900 Mhz band but business eco-system for CDMA business is not well developed compared to GSM services. The threeGSM operators have demanded to earmark airwaves frequencies from 880 Mhz onwardfor GSM players instead of current practice of allocating it from 890 Mhz onward.

    "With the diminishing interest of operators in CDMA and the reducing subscriber base ofthe technology, we believe that we need to harmonise and reconfigure the existingIndian CDMA band in line with the global practice," the letter said.

    The telecom companies added that it will lead to optimum utilisation of 800 Mhzspectrum and "the Government will also be able to generate revenues that were denieddue to the absence of bidders for the 800 MHz spectrum during the auctions."

    Government had fixed price of 800 Mhz spectrum at 1.3 times higher than that for 1800Mhz band.

    The GSM telecom majors said, "the Reserve Price for this 800 Mhz band is kept at

    reasonable level in congruence to the market realities and all existing Operators beallowed to bid."

    Government may re-auction 800 Mhz band by March 2013.

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    Telecom industry growing at 31%: GovtAGENCIESPosted: Friday, Nov 23, 2012 at 1612 hrs IST

    New Delhi: The government today said communications industry has been growing at

    an annual average growth rate of 31.07 per cent during the last three years with totalnumber of telephone connections rising to 95.14 crore at the end of March 31, 2012.

    "The total number of telephone connections have increased to 951.35 million as onMarch 31, 2012 from 429.73 million as on March 31, 2009," Minister of State forCommunications and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.

    He said the industry grew at 44.57 per cent in 2010, 36.22 per cent in 2011 and 12.40per cent in 2012.

    "The annual average growth rate during the last three years is 31.07 per cent," Deorasaid.

    On a query if the expansion of industry is dependent on supply of imported equipment,Deora said presently, wireless equipment with sufficient value addition are not beingmanufactured in the country.

    However, to promote telecom equipment manufacturing within the country, thegovernment has taken various steps.

    The National Telecom Policy-2012 has the objective to provide preference todomestically manufactured electronic products in procurement, consistent with WTOcommitments.

    The government proposes to give 50 per cent to 100 per cent preferential market accessfor domestically manufactured telecom equipment with minimum value addition of 25 percent to 65 per cent, he said.

    GSM operators add 240,000 subscribers inOct: COAI

    AGENCIESPosted: Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 at 2145 hrs IST

    New Delhi: Arresting the two-month fall, total subscriber base of GSM operators rose byabout 240,000 to 671.91 million users in October, telecom industry body COAI saidtoday.

    The total subscriber base at the end of September was 671.67 million users. InSeptember, the subscriber base had reduced by 1.9 million users following a whopping7.1 million fall in August.

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    Top three operators -- Airtel, Vodafone and Idea -- which account for about 68 per centof the GSM market, added over 1.2 million users in October, according to the COAI datareleased today.

    However, Uninor and Videocon lost 1.1 million users and 59,151 users, respectively inOctober, 2012. The subscriber base of Uninor stood at 41.03 million, while that of

    Videocon stood was at 4.39 million by the month end.

    Bharti Airtel, which has 27.74 per cent market share, added about 490,000 users to takeits subscriber base to 186.41 million.

    Vodafone India and Idea Cellular added about 480,000 users and 230,000 million users,respectively. With this, Vodafone's subscriber base stood at 153.14 million, while that ofIdea Cellular was at 115.70 million at the end of October.

    Aircel added 170,000 users, taking its subscriber base to 66.78 million in October.

    State-run MTNL, which operates in Delhi and Mumbai, added 13,652 users in the saidmonth.

    Another PSU BSNL and private operator Loop Mobile failed to add any subscriber,according to the data.

    Cabinet approves $5.7 bln mobile airwavesurcharge

    08/11/12

    By Devidutta Tripathy and Nigam Prusty

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The cabinet approved a plan to levy a $5.7 billion surcharge onairwaves held by long-established telecommunications operators that will hit marketleaders Bharti Airtel and Vodafone's local unit and two state-run carriers the most.

    A ministerial panel had proposed to the cabinet that GSM-based carriers be asked topay for airwaves beyond 4.4 megahertz at an auction-determined price, while CDMAcarriers pay for holdings beyond 2.5 megahertz, for the remaining validity of their

    permits.

    On the top of that, it had also suggested that GSM-based carriers who have more than6.2 MHz of airwaves should also pay a retroactive fee for the extra airwaves for theperiod between July 2008 and December this year.

    The telecommunications minister has said the surcharges being proposed are aimed atcreating a level playing field between old and new operators.

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    "Both GSM and CDMA would be charged, that is decided," said a government minister,who declined to be named, adding that the Department of Telecommunications woulddetermine the basis for charging spectrum held by CDMA operators.

    India, which traditionally bundled airwaves with telecom permits and charged just about$300 million for all India permits, is for the first time auctioning off second-generation

    airwaves after a scandal over a state grant process in 2008.

    The telecommunications ministry had planned to hold two separate auctions forairwaves used by GSM and CDMA-based mobile phone carriers hoping to reap acombined 400 billion rupees to plug a high fiscal deficit.

    The government has set a base price of 140 billion rupees for 5 mega hertz of GSMairwaves in all the 22 zones, more than seven times what companies paid in the 2008grant process. The base price of CDMA airwaves had been set 1.3 times the GSMairwaves.

    But India has been left with no bidders for the CDMA part of the auction after TataTeleservices and Videocon Telecommunications dropped out of the sale.

    Telenor, Tata Teleservices reportedlymulling a mergerSubmitted byGaurav Mehra on Wed, 11/28/2012 - 15:58.

    Norway-based telecom giant Telenor ASA is reportedly pursuing

    discussions with Tata Teleservices Ltd to merge their Indian

    operations.

    Three people familiar with the situation revealed that Telenor and

    Tata Teleservices Ltd are mulling proposal to combine their

    operations in India, and create a bigger entity to better compete

    with rivals.

    One of the three people, who were speaking on the condition of anonymity as the

    information was confidential, added that Japanese telecom firm NTT DoCoMo, which

    holds a 26% stake in Tata Teleservices Ltd, would likely retain a stake in the combinedentity also.

    India has so far remained a very challenging market for Telenor, and the reported

    merger could help the Norwegian telecom firm to gain a better position in the market.

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    Thomas Nielsen, an analyst with Oslo-based Pareto Securities ASA, said, "Some type of

    merger there would help, if it's allowed, as they could utilize their size to get a better

    position in the market."

    However, people with direct knowledge of the matter added that any merger would

    depend on new takeover rules that are currently being mulled over by the TelecomRegulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

    RBI relaxes overseas borrowing rulesfor telecom companiesSubmitted byHarish Dhawanon Tue, 11/27/2012 - 16:15.

    The Reserve Bank of India has tweaked the external commercial borrowing (ECB) rules

    for telecom companies to enable them garner funds to pay for the 2G spectrum

    allocation.

    Relaxing its external commercial borrowing (ECB) policy for the telecom companies, the

    central bank said that successful bidders at the 2Gspectrum auction would be permitted

    to refinance the rupee loans taken for making the payment for the spectrum by raising

    long-term ECBs.

    Telecom companies will be permitted to avail ECBs from their parent companies without

    any maximum ECB liability-equity ratio. However, the relaxation will be subject to the

    condition that the lending company owns minimum paid-up equity of 25% in the

    borrower firm. In addition, the bidders will also be allowed to take short-term loans from

    foreign companies for making upfront payment for the 2G spectrum and replace the

    short-term loans with a long-term ECB.

    However, the central bank also made it clear that the ECBs would have to be raised

    within eighteen months of the sanction of the rupee loan.

    The bank also declared that the relaxations in respect of the ECBs would applicable only

    to the winning bidders in the forthcoming 2G spectrum auction.

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    The RBI said in a statement, "The relaxations in respect of the ECB liability-equity ratio.

    refinancing of Rupee loans and bridge finance are part of a special dispensation

    applicable only to the successful bidders in the upcoming 2G spectrum auction."

    The deadline for making payments for the 2G spectrum is December 1, 2012.

    Telecom operators to cut freebies and talk-time to improve marginsSubmitted byGaurav Mehra on Thu, 11/22/2012 - 23:14.

    Several major telecom operators in India are looking to enhance revenues by slashing

    freebies and talk-time that come with discount vouchers, which are used by prepaid

    customers.

    The telecom service providers are looking to improve sales and margins as they face

    stagnating earnings in the country. According to latest data, 96 percent of India's 906

    million mobile connections are subscribed to prepaid plans.

    Most of the prepaid users rely on discount vouchers that make up 70 percent of the

    telecom service providers' revenues. However, the revenues have remained stagnant for

    the previous years, according to a new media report published on Thursday.

    Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone India, Tata Teleservices, and Aircel have silently

    changed discount vouchers for prepaid customers to improve revenues. However, this

    time the increase will be different to earlier rises when companies raised call rates in

    select telecom zones and gradually extended it to the whole country.

    Bharti Airtel cut down the validity date for discount vouchers, Cellular raised the price of

    a discount voucher in Maharashtra and Vodafone in Kolkata slashed the number of free

    minutes.

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    The Indian Telecom Services PerformanceIndicators

    April - June, 2012

    The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 951.34 million at the end ofMar-12 to 965.52 million at the end of Jun-12, registering a growth of 1.49% over theprevious quarter as against 2.68% during the QE Mar-12. This reflects year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth of 8.98% over the same quarter of last year. The overall Tele-density inIndia has reached 79.58 as on 30th June, 2012.

    Trends in Telephone subscribers and Teledensity in India

    Subscription in Urban Areas grew from 620.53 million at the end of Mar-12 to 621.76million at the end of Jun-12, however Urban Teledensity slightly declined from 169.55 to169.03. Rural subscription increased from 330.82 million to 343.76 million, and RuralTeledensity increased from 39.22 to 40.66. Share of subscription in Rural areas out oftotal subscription increased from 34.77% at the end of Mar-12 to 35.60% at the end ofJun-12.

    About 91.30% of the total net additions have been in Rural areas as compared to62.39% in the previous quarter. Rural subscription growth rate decreased from 4.91% inQE Mar-12 to 3.91% in QE Jun-12, and Urban subscription growth rate declined from1.53% in QE Mar-12 to 0.20% in QE Jun-12.

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    Composition of Telephone Subscribers

    With 14.92 million net additions during the quarter, total wireless (GSM+CDMA)subscriber base registered a growth of 1.62% over the previous quarter and increasedfrom 919.17 million at the end of Mar-12 to 934.09 million at the end of Jun-12. Theyear-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth rate of Wireless subscribers for Jun-12 is 9.67%. WirelessTeledensity increased from 76.00 at the end of Mar-12 to 76.99 at the end of Jun-12.

    Wireline subscriber base further declined from 32.17 million at the end of Mar-12 to31.43 million at the end of Jun-12, bringing down the wireline Teledensity from 2.66 atthe end of Mar-12 to 2.59 at the end of Jun-12.

    Internet subscribers increased from 22.86 million at the end of Mar-12 to 23.01 million atthe end of Jun-12, registering a quarterly growth rate of 0.66%. Top 10 ISPs togetherhold 94.72% of the total Internet subscriber base.

    Number of Broadband subscribers increased from 13.81 million at the end of Mar-12 to14.57 million at the end of Jun-12, registering a quarterly growth of 5.49% and Y-O-Ygrowth of 17.97%.

    Share of Broadband subscription in total Internet subscription increased from 60.4% atthe end of Mar-12 to 63.31% at the end of Jun-12. 82.68% of the Broadband subscribersare using Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology.

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    Trends in Internet/Broadband subscription

    Monthly Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for GSM service declined by 1.94%, from`97 in QE Mar-12 to `95 in QE Jun-12, with Y-O-Y decrease of 2.11%.

    MOU per subscriber per month for GSM service remained almost at the same level as inthe previous quarter i.e. 346. The Outgoing MOUs(167) increased by 0.04% whereas

    Incoming MOUs (178) declined by 0.19%.

    Monthly ARPU for CDMA full mobility service slightly declined by 0.50%, from `75.3 inQE Mar-12 to `74.9 in QE Jun-12. ARPU for CDMA has increased by 16.31% on Y-O-Ybasis.

    The total MOU for CDMA per subscriber per month declined by 0.31%, from 229.3 in QEMar-12 to 228.6 QE Jun-12. The Outgoing MOUs (115) declined by 1.57% whereasIncoming MOUs (114) increased by 1%.

    Gross Revenue (GR) and Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) of Telecom Service Sectorfor the QE Jun-12 has been `52512.10 Crore and `35499.01 Crore respectively. There

    has been an increase of 6.64% in GR and an increase of 3.02% in AGR as compared toprevious quarter. The year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth in GR and AGR over the samequarter in last year has been 11.99% and 8.93% respectively. Pass-through chargesaccounted for 32.40% of the GR for the quarter ending Jun-12. The quarterly and theyear-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth rates of pass-through charges for QE Jun-12 are 15.06%and 18.96% respectively.

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    Average license fee as percentage of AGR is 8.28% in QE Jun-12. The quarterly and theyear-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth rates of the average license fee for QE Jun-12 are 3.11%and 8.96% respectively.

    Access services contributed 76.00% of the total revenue of telecom services. In Accessservices Gross Revenue, AGR, License Fee & Spectrum Charges increased by 3.77%,

    2.98%, 3.10% & 2.32% respectively in the quarter ending Jun-12 vis--vis previousquarter.Monthly Average Revenue per User (ARPU) for Access Services based on AGRincreased from ` 97 in QE Mar-12 to ` 98 in QE Jun-12.

    Composition of Gross Revenue

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    The performance of wireless service providers in terms of QoS during the quarter vis--vis that in previous quarter is depicted as under:

    Parameters showingImprovement in QoS

    Parameters showingdeterioration in QoS

    Parameters showing nochange in QoS

    TCH Congestion

    Worst affected cells having more than 3% TCHdrop (call drop) rate

    Time taken for refund of deposits after closures

    Point of Inter-connection (POI) Congestion (No. ofPOIs not meeting the

    benchmark)

    Accessibility of call centre/customer care

    Worst affected BTSs due to downtime

    SDCCH/Paging Chl. Congestion

    Call Drop Rate

    Metering and billing credibility - post paid

    Metering and billing

    credibility - pre paid

    %age requests for Termination /Closure ofservice complied within 7days

    %age of calls answered by the operators (voice tovoice) within 60 sec.

    BTSs Accumulated downtime (not available forservice)

    Call Set-up Success Rate (within licensee's ownnetwork)

    Connection with good voice quality

    Resolution of billing/

    charging/ validity complaints

    Period of applying credit/ waiver/ adjustment tocustomers account from thedate of resolution of complaints.

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    The performance of wireline service providers in terms of QoS during the quarter vis--vis that in previous quarter is depicted as under:

    Parameters showingImprovement in QoS

    Parameters showingdeterioration in QoS

    Parameters showing nochange in QoS

    Call Completion Rate (CCR)

    Metering and billing credibility - post paid

    Period of applying credit/waiver/ adjust-ment tocustomers account from thedate of

    % faults repaired by next working day

    % faults repaired within 3 days

    % faults repaired within 5 days

    Mean Time to Repair

    Faults incidences ( No. of faults/100 Subs./month)

    Answer to Seizure Ratio (ASR)

    Point of Interconnection (POI) Congestion

    resolution of complaints.

    Accessibility of call centre/ customer care

    Time taken for refund of deposits after closures.

    (MTTR)

    % of calls answered by the operators (Voice toVoice) within 60 Sec

    %age requests for Termination / Closure ofservice complied within 7days.

    Resolution of billing/ charging/ validity complaints

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    The progress and the changes in telecom have been astronomical, with new and cheaper technologiestaking birth almost each year. With an addition of 18 million subscribers every month and contributing tonearly 2% of the Indian GDP, Indian telecom industry is considered to be the largest telecom markets of theworld. Driven by wireless communication, the telecommunications industry is recognized as a key to therapid growth and modernization of the economy and an important tool for socio-economic development for anation.

    OverviewMost of the telecommunications forms in India are as prevalent or as advanced as those in modern Westerncountries, and the system includes some of the most sophisticated technology in the world and constitutes afoundation for further development of a modern network. Telecom Regularity Authority of India (TRAI) is thesole authority empowered to take binding decisions on fixation of tariffs for provision of telecommunicationservices.India has the world's second largest mobile phone users with over 903 million as of January 2012. It has theworld's third largest Internet users with over 121 million as of December 2011. India has become the world'smost competitive and one of the fastest growing telecom markets.Key developments

    Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has revealed that the country's mobile subscriberbase has increased from 893.84 million in December 2011 to 903.73 million in January 2012.

    Telecom operators added 9.88 million mobile subscribers in January 2012. The overall tele-density reached 77.57 per cent.

    Broadband subscriber base increased from 13.30 million at the end of December 2011 to 13.42million at the end of January 2012.

    Telecom users in rural areas have grown at a faster pace compared to their urban counterparts inthe last five years, a CAG report said.

    India added around 20 million subscriptions of the estimated 140 million net additions in mobilesubscriptions across the world during the April-June quarter in 2012, said a report by Ericsson.

    The telecom sector is a very capital intensive sector and involves high value investments. Correspondingly,the mobile phone industry is also experiencing a parallel upward surge, and a parallel enhancement intechnologies used. With the liberalization of the Indian economy, the telecom sector has become veryattractive for mergers and acquisitions latest being SingTel increasing its stake in Bharti telecom.Employment Opportunities

    According to analysts, the sector would generate employment opportunities for about 10 million people direct employment for 2.8 million people and indirect employment for about 7 million. The total revenue ofthe Indian telecom sector grew by 7% to 283,207crore (US$ 56. 5 billion) in 2011, while revenues fromtelecom equipment segment stood at 117,039 crore (US$ 23. 35 billion).Energy saving initiativesWith an ambition to be diesel free by 2020, telecom companies are retrofitting their towers every year. Manytelecom tower companies currently use renewable energy sources such as solar, biogas and wind besideshydroelectric power, for individual towers. Bharti Airtel, one of the largest telecom service providers in India,has been testing and implementing various energy saving options for the last two-three years. Additionally,the e-bill initiative is estimated to save as many as 24,000 trees a year.Value addition by VASSome of the recent developments in this area are M-Commerce, focus on localization, availability of contentin vernacular languages and availability of mobile TV. The expected revenue from VAS will be around US$

    4.0 billion by 2015.Some of the major growth drivers of the sector are:Two major factors responsible for the growth of telecommunications industry are use of modern technologyand market competition. The growth of Indian telecommunication sector is highly driven by supportivegovernment policies, emerging new technologies and changing consumer behavior. Drastically reduced callrates and mind-blowing technologies like 3G, Android and advent of innovative products like iPhone, Galaxytab, it is natural to expect further developments in this space in the coming years.Undoubtedly, smartphones are going to rule the future handset market and is forecasted to achieve ashipment of 77.5 million by 2015 in the Indian market.

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    Challenges aheadThe metro cities and the urban markets are quite saturated in terms of tele-density and thus, leaving verylittle scope in terms of new customer acquisition. Lack of proper telecom infrastructure, power shortage andlack of trained manpower are some of the challenges which telecom companies have to cope with.To conclude

    Telecom Industry in India is out of its nascent stage and the government together with the private sectorinitiatives is on the path of making India the electronics manufacturing hub of the world. 10 years agosubscribers were made to pay for an incoming call; today they have the liberty to pay for per second of theirusage. We, definitely, have come a long way!

    By Ankita Sethi

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    KKaleidoscope Films LtdKavveri Telecom Products Ltd.Krone Communications Ltd.

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  • 7/30/2019 Trends In Telecom Sector

    17/17

    MMahanagar Telephone Nigam LtdMIC Electronics Ltd.Mobile Tele Communications LtdMotorolaMPTelelinks Ltd.Munoth Communication Ltd

    NNelco Ltd.Nokia IndiaNokia Siemens NetworksNortelNu Tek India Ltd

    OOptel Tecommunications Ltd

    PParamount Communications Ltd.Precision Electronics Ltd.Punjab Communications Ltd.

    QQualcomm India

    RReliance Communications Ltd.RPG Cables Ltd

    SShyam Telecom LtdSouthern Online Bio Technologies LtdSpice Communications Ltd.Spice MobilesLtdSterlite Technologies Ltd.Sujana Towers LtdSurana Telecom & Power LtdSurana Telecom Ltd.

    TTamilnadu Telecommunications LtdTata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd.

    TataCommunications LtdTelecom Regulatory Authority of IndiaTelecommunications Consultants India Ltd.Telephone Cables Ltd.Telephone Cables Ltd.Tulip Telecom Ltd

    VValiant Communications Ltd.Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.Vindhya Telelinks LtdVodafone Group Plc

    XXL Telecom & Energy Ltd.

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