Presentation on Telecom
Sector
Presented By: Md. Ismail
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STATUS OF TELECOM
SECTOR
Historically telecom network in india
was owned and managed by govt as it
is considered as a strategic service.
Telecommunication policies were
revised to allow private operators in
year,1999.
In 2008-09, rural India outpaced
urban India in mobile growth rate.
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INDIA’S POSITION IN TELECOM
SECTOR
India ranks second in mobile phone usage to
China, with 537 million users as of December
2009.
Indian telecom network is 2nd largest in the
world and.
Contribution of telecom sector in terms of
revenue is more than 2 % of GDP.
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TECHNOLOGY USED IN TELECOM
SECTOR
GSM (global system for mobile communication)
The most popular standard for mobile phones in
the world.
Its promoter, the gsm association, estimates that
82% of the global mobile market uses this
standard.
Gsm is used by over 2 billion people across more
than 212 countries
Is considered a second generation (2g) mobile
phone system.
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CDMA (code division multiple access )
One of the basic concepts in data
communication is the idea of allowing
several transmitters to send information
simultaneously over a single communication
channel.
This allows several users to share a
bandwidth of frequencies. This concept is
called multiplexing.
CDMA employs spread-spectrum
technology and a special coding scheme
(where each transmitter is assigned a
code) to allow multiple users to be
multiplexed over the same physical channel
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REFORMS
Reforms in telecom sector began in 1980 with
telecom manufacturing being opened for private
sector followed by national telecom policy(ntp) in
1994 and 1999.
In 1990 telecom revolution in many countries which
resulted in better quality of service with lower tariff
rates force Indian policy makers to open up telecom
sector for private players
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POLICY REFORM- 3 PHASES
Phase-1
The decade of 1980's saw private sector
being allowed in telecommunications equipment
manufacturing.
Mahanagar telephone nigam limited (mtnl) and
videsh sanchar nigam limited (vsnl) were
formed.
A telecom commission was set up to give focus
to telecommunications policy formation.
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Phase-2 –
In 1990s, telecommunications sector also
benefited from the general opening up of
the economy.
NTP 1994 was the first attempt to give a
comprehensive roadmap for the Indian
telecommunications sector.
Availability of telephones on demand
(targeted by 1997)
Universal service covering all villages and
one pco per 500 persons in urban areas at
the earliest (targeted to be achieved by
1997)
Telecom services at affordable and
reasonable prices
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Phase- 3-
NTP 1999 brought in the third generations of
reforms in the Indian telecommunications
sector
FDI increase from 49% to 74%.
Internet telephony in 2002.
Launch of cdma technology.
3-6 operator in each circle.
Intra circle merger guidelines.
Broadband policy 2004.
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Status of Telecom sector
Telephony Subscribers 562.21 millions (Dec
(Wireless and Landline): 2009)
Cell Phones 525.15 millions (Dec 2009)
Land Lines 37.06 millions (Dec 2009)
Broad Band Subscription 7.83 millions (Dec 2009)
Monthly Cellphone Addition 19.20 millions (Dec 2009)
Teledensity 47.89% (Dec 2009)
Projected Teledensity 893 million, 64.69% of
population by 2012
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Subscriber base
Nov-09 (in mn) Oct-09 (in mn)
Wireless 506.04 488.4
Subscriber
Base
Wire line 37.16 37.25
Subscriber
Base
Total 543.2 525.65
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All India Subscriber Base (Includes
Wireless and Wire line)
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Operator wise Wireless Subscriber Base
(millions)
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Performance Indicators
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Thank You
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