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Business Development
Value-added services in Indian markets
by Sanjiv Mital, CEO of Bharti Telesoft Intl. Pvt. Ltd
Wireless telephony has overtaken fixed telephony in India.
Indias market potential is enormous, but market fragmentation
is a challenge. The success of vernacular FM broadcasting
shows the potential of local language service offerings to
boost mass acceptance. Vernacular voice services can bring
large numbers of Indias text averse and text illiterate subscribers
to an operators fold.
Communications and commerce in
digital India
by Ramesh Krishnan, Director of Operations, VeriSign
Communications Services, India
The urban Indian is a mobile carrying, e-mail savvy, consumer
who is reaping the benefits of a global digital revolution.
Indias middle-class has huge buying power. This is the result
of Indias emergence as the worlds back-office and software
development super-power. Indias people, enterprises and
government, can transform the worlds largest democracy into
the worlds largest digital economy.
Connectivity
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Enable seamless services with
softswitching
by Venkat Eswara, Senior Marketing Manager of Systems
Marketing and Portfolio Management, Global Telecom Solutions
Sector, Motorola, India
Operators expect converged core networks to reduce investment
needed to deliver a competitive range of services.
Indias unified licensing plan, which lets operators select access
alternatives for each servicefundamentally changes the
market. Softswitch / IP-based, architecture provides low cost
service, covers wide areas and facilitates seamless connections
between a wide variety of wired and wireless networks.
Education
Training and future of India
by Dr Ashok K. Chauhan President, Amity Institute of Telecom Technology
and Management (AITTM) & Founder President, Ritnand Balved Education
Foundation (RBEF), Chairman AKC Group of Companies
Today, ICT (Information and Communication Technology)
drives economies throughout the world. ICTs, though, both
create and destroy work opportunities, as labour intensive
jobs are replaced by machines. This poses a challenge for
higher education. India has some 200 million adult illiterates,
but projects such as the Computer Based Functional Literacy
(CBFL), that teach adults to read 400450 words in their own
language through a multimedia puppet show progamme,
provide a modern solution to a traditional problem.
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Digital India – the underwater connection
by Peter Ford, CEO, Global Marine Systems Limited
Billing and Mediation
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Indias success providing outsourced services has shown its ability
to conquer international markets. International connectivity
is crucial to continue Indias international success. Satellites and
submarine cables, historically, were too expensive and satellites
do not have the capacity. Technology, though, has reduced the
cost of submarine systems and developing countries can now
afford regional systems to compete in global markets.
VoIP – opening the way for India
by Amit Chawla, Executive Vice-President, Global Marketing,
Veraz Networks
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Preparing for mobile growth
by Tero Laaksonen, President and CEO, Comptel, and Marianne
Tikkanen, Market Analyst, Comptel
Indias three-digit mobile growth rate is a happy problem,
but extraordinary growth requires the expansion of everything.
Flexibility to grow is a prime reason for using mediation
and service provisioning systems. These act as flexible
rubber bands between the network and back office systems.
During a system changeover, mediation is indispensable as it
provides uninterrupted billing.
India has one of the worlds top ten telephone networks. Still,
penetration is low and demand for basic telephony, long distance,
cellular and other services is high. Indias growth as a
provider of outsource services depends upon its communications.
The government is working to liberalise and deregulate
Indias telecommunications sector to facilitate competition
and the entry of new service providers.
Push to Talk
IT Solutions
Advertorial Features
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