Telecom Engineering
Fact Sheet About Indian Telecoms & IT
Dt: 9/5/16
Fact Sheet About Indian Telecoms & IT
(A C.T.M.S Release: World Telecom and Information Society Day, 17 May 2016)
· P-Telcos: 8 operational + R Jio on trial
· PSU-Telecos – 2 (BSNL & MTNL)
· Networks: technology –wise
o 2G, 3G & 4G
· Mobile Switching Centers & RBS Equipment suppliers
o Nokia, ZTE, HUAWI
o Ericsson & CIT Alcatel
o Not a single Indian company
· Mobile Devices sales/year > 200 mln
· 80% foreign make
· Cell towers in the country : 4,50,000
o (6,00,000 according to another source)
o (Leader Indus Towers: 1,20,000 with 270,000 tenancies; 2nd American Tower Company
o Reliance Infra......)
· P-Telcos invested app Rs. 3,50,000 cr
· P-Telcos debt > Rs. 300,000cr
· Loss Leaders : BSNL and MTNL (app Rs. 12,000 cr/yr)
· P-Telcos paid for spectrum (app: Rs. 300,000cr)
· P-Telcos paying spectrum usage fee 5%; (reduced to 3% recently) of adjusted gross revenues even after they bought the spectrum
· P-Telcos pay revenue share to government about 7%
· Spectrum 700 MHZ auction in July 2016 is expected to yield , minimum Rs.4,00,000cr at a reserve price of Rs.11,485 cr/MHZ
(companies need minimum 5 MHZ)
· India ‘s price for spectrum is the highest in the world and each company gets the lowest MHZ in the world
· The price/mnt for voice calls on cell phone s lowest in the world ---33 paise/mnt
· Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) per month : Voice < Rs. 150 ;
Data - ~ Rs.250/300
· Mobile phones in Indi a: 100 cr
· Tele-density in Metros - (120 to 150) per 100 persons
Rural > 60 per 100 people
· In 1994 we had hardly any mobile phones ( A few thousands in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta & Chennai) & wired telephones, all India - 1 cr
· In 1994 Telephone spend/yr/phone Rs. 10,000 equal to per capita income of
Rs. 10,000
· In 2016: We have mobiles 100 cr ; Cell phone spend/yr /ea - Rs: 3,500
· Per Capita Income> Rs. 100,000
Phone is 30 times more affordable than in 1984
· Reason: Privatisation: Competition & New Technology & New business methods (prepaid, outsourcing, retailers...)
Information Technology:
· Flare-up – Y2K
· Traction provided by - Private Engineering Colleges ( 3,800, producing
app.15 lakh“certificate” holding engineers of whom 35% are ICT-related.
· IT & Software & BPO cos > 15,000
· Professionals ( direct) - 40,00,000
(Indirect) - 1,20,00,000
· Largest I.T company - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with
o Associates > 3,50,000
o Revenues > Rs. 1,00,000cr
o Profits ~ Rs. 26,000 cr
o Presence in over 50 countries
Internet:
· Digital India/ Bharat Broadband
· Project cost Rs. 75,000cr
· Connects 250,000 Panchayats
covering > 600,000 villages
· Leading Implementer: Andhra Pradesh
· Implementation: States can do with Central Funds
· Funding mainly from Universal Service Fund - A 5% levy on Telco revenues
· For e-governance & e-everything (banks, ticketing, marriage, talaaq, education, fraud, terrorism,
photo-sharing balloting...
· World’ Internet Users > 600 cr ( world pop. 750 cr)
· Applications Development - 300,000 professionals in India
· Internet of Things (IOT) ~ 7,500 cr devices will connect to Internet!
· Change in the way we : Learn; Work; Socialise, wage wars ...
· With all the knowledge and Information in the world, available to every person fitted ( with a mobile device and skilled to use) and accessing the Internet.
Will we grow into Supermen ( as Aurobindo envisaged) or Will we decline into sub-humans ( as ISIS is demonstrating) . Will we have
Vidya with Buddhi & Viveka
or
Degrees without learning, reasoning and wisdom
Who but the wise should determine the outcome of the universalisation of ICTs.
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