1. Telecom Industry
Connecting the World
PREPARED BY:-
ABHISHEK SINHA
ATTAM KHATWANI
JATIN SETHI
MIRZA MOHSIN BEG

2. INTRODUCTION
1) Telecommunication is the transmission of messages, over
significant distances, for the purpose of communication.
2) Presently INDIA ranked second worldwide in terms of having
the largest telecommunication network.
3) Internet and mobile phones are two indispensible entities.
4) Revenue generated by telecom industry in India is US$ 31
billion.

3. Telecom services in current scenario
 Strong and highly efficient modes of Satellite Communication are the
result of the advancement in the telecom services.
 According to research conducted by stanford university indian mobile
value added services (mvas) are expected to reach by US$ 2.74
billion.
 The world telecom services market enjoyed 5.3% growth in 2007 and
should reach 1,430 billion USD in 2011.
 Broadband has continued its swift progress with over 200 million
subscribers at year-end 2007 and an expected 500 million by the end
of 2011.
 Total internet customers in country were approximately 14.6 Million by
Q4 2009.
 Expected no. of 3G customers in India will be 295 million by 2013.

4. UMTS – FUTURE TELECOM
 In January1998, the European Telecommunications Standards
Institute (ETSI) decided on a single air interface standard for
the proposed Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
(UMTS).
 The system has the support of many major telecommunications
operators and manufacturers because it represents a unique
opportunity to create a mass market for user-friendly mobile
access to today’s information society.

5. BENEFITS OF UMTS
UMTS will offer significant benefits in communication:
• Easy to use and low cost;
• New and better services;
• Packet transmission and data rates on demand; and
• Improved mobility and coverage.

6. LIMITATIONS
1)Risk of further regulation.
2)Standardization.
UMTS in the Long Term - In order to ensure that UMTS
flourishes in the long term, its capabilities must be
progressively increased by the addition of new technologies.
1) Re-configurable Terminals
2) Application and Service Download

7. MAJOR PLAYERS IN TELECOM
INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE
Top 10 Telecom Companies in World
Rank Company Name Subscribers
1 China Mobile 522 Mln
2 Vodafone Group 333 Mln
3 Telefonica 202 Mln
4 AmericaMovil 201 Mln
5 Telenor Group 172 Mln
6 Deutsche Telecom 151 Mln
7 China Unicom 148 Mln
8 TeliaSonera 148 Mln
9 France Telecom 133 Mln
10 Bharti Airtel 125 Mln

8. Indian Telecom – Global Reach
Players Countries Services Subscribers Partners
Bharti
Telecom Seychelles
MTNL
United Telecom
(Since 2002)
Reliance
IndiaCall services
(Since 2005)
Transnet/ Transtel,
Eskom, Nexus, Two,
CommuniTel
VSNL (acquired
license in 2005)
South Africa
Fixed (Services to
commence in Aug-Sep
2006)
owned subsidiary
US, UK and
Canada
ILD services to India,
Australia, Canada,
France, Germany,
Malaysia, NZ, Singapore,
and UK
500,000 + -
MTML (Since 2005) Mauritius CDMA-based WLL services 20000 (March
2006)
Nepal
CDMA-based WLL
services
45,032 (March
2006)
TCIL VSNL, and NVPL
Wholly
Jersey Telenet State of Jersey 2G and 3G, ILD Services from
Oct 2006
Seychelles Fixed, FWP, cellular
34000 (March
2006)
Emtel of Mauritius, (Since
1998) private investors
and the Gov of Seychelles

9. Global Trends – Connecting World
Convergence & Mobility
 Mobile Devices with
voice, data & video
 Mobile Wireless
Broadband
 Fibre to Home Communications
Computers
& IT
Consumer
Electronics
 Entertainment
becomes Digital
 Mobile Personal
Digital Devices
prevail
 Laptops & Handheld
PCs
 Entertainment major
PC driver
 IP to & in the Home
 VoIP handsets
Public
Safety  Mobile Police &
Fire personnel
devices
 Interoperable
Communications

10. MAJOR PLAYERS IN TELECOM
INDUSTRY IN INDIA
 Bharti airtel
 Bsnl
 Vodafone Essar
 Reliance Communications
 Idea Cellular
 Tata Communications
 Tata Teleservices

11. Connecting India to the World
CHALLENGES
 Regulatory Policies
 Lack of level playing field
 Penetration Level
 Across the world and within India
 Seamless Roaming
 Infrastructure Program
 Manufacture telecom equipment in India
 Passive Infrastructure Sharing
 Value Added Services
 Unutilized software capability
 Digital Divide
 Non Availability of technology, equipment, network access for millions of poor

12. Future of telecom industry
 Emergence of new applications
–Video on demand
–New Web-based applications
–Music / Video downloading (MySpace, YouTube, iPods)
 •High appetite for broadband
–50% of adults in U.S. use broadband
–52% of 8-18 year-olds have used MySpace!
–More and more people get their news from the Internet
 and watch less TV!
 Socio-economic impact of the Internet
–Providing greater economic opportunities (E-commerce)
–Stimulating economic growth and productivity
 (Telecommuting)
 –The number of people using their mobile handsets to
 access the web is now over four times those using a PC that is 38 million …… still
incresaing.
 Mobile number portability.
 Digital signatures in messaging.

13. Qatar Telecommunications
Case Study
QTel Background
 QTel is the monopoly telecommunications provider in Qatar.
 It provides wide range of telecom products including national &
international, wireline & mobile telephony, broadband internet.
 QTel is a Major customer of Cisco in the region and implemented a
Cisco IP core MPLS backbone for their IP services.
 Constantly undergoing extensive transformation programme to
improve its already advanced telecommunications network.
The QTel Challenge
 Their objective was to provide Qatari business the opportunity to
replace their PBX hardware with an advance IP based Telephony
services.
 QTel wanted customers to be able to manage their own services,
through a simple, web-based, administration GUI
 In order to deliver upon their promise, QTel needed a provisioning and
service management product which was going to meet their needs
today and into the future.

14. This has resulted in a number of key high level objectives for Qtel
•Advanced IP Telephony feature set, including both traditional voice features, plus the latest IP
productivity tools
•Working design avail for Voice-enabled IP Network
•Secure design built into the architecture.
Key rationale for QTel selecting Cisco H/M-UCS included
•Full PBX feature set while allowing multi-tenant sharing of common network elements
•Several PSTN interconnection options
•Easier legacy TDMPBX migration/evolution plan
•Faster customer connection through automated provisioning and registration of Phones.
Benifits to Customers
•Rapid time to market for adding new Customers
•Ease of Use
•Upgraded Applications
•Dial Plan Modifications

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