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VOLUME - 1
By
TELECOM INDIA DAILY
This presentation covers long journey of Indian Telecom.
We have tried our best to include major changes
occurred, reforms made and important dates.
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BEGINNING
• 1851: The sprawling Posts and Telegraphs Department,
for instance, occupied a small corner of the public works
department, in.
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Historical Changes
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Historical Changes
• Dr. O'Shaughnessy was the first Superintendent of
Electric Telegraphs in India and later became the first
Director General.
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Historical Changes
• 1914 : World War I, Postal Department and the
Telegraph Department were amalgamated under a
single Director-General.
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Historical Changes
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FROM P&T TO DoT
P&TÆDoT
• 31st December, 1984 : postal, telegraph and telephone
services were managed by the Posts and Telegraphs
Department till this date.
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DEPARTMENT OF
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DoT
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DoT
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DoT
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1994
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Objectives
• The quality of telecom services should be of world
standard. Removal of consumer complaints, dispute
resolution and public interface will receive special
attention providing widest permissible range of services
to meet the customer's demand at reasonable prices.
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Status--1994
• Telephone density was 0.8 per hundred persons as
against the world average of 10 per hundred persons.
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Revised Targets
• Telephone should be available on demand by 1997.
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GSM
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TELECOM REGULATORY
AUTHORITY OF INDIA
TRAI
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Role of TRAI
• Section 13 of the TRAI Act gives adequate powers to
TRAI to issue directions to service providers.
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Teledensity -1998
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1999
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Objectives
• Create a modern and efficient telecommunications
infrastructure taking into account the convergence of IT,
media, telecom and consumer electronics and thereby
propel India into becoming an IT superpower.
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Objectives
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Objectives
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Targets
• Telephone on demand by the year 2002.
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Targets
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Impact of NTP-99 on Mobile
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BSNL
BSNL
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Telecom Services Market
Wireline
3%
12% GSm
CDMA
18% 46%
Domestic Long
Distance
2% International Long
Distance
19% Data
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Switching Infrastructure
Other Private
Operators 16%
MTNL 10%
74% BSNL
0%
0% 4%
B a s ic T e le p h o n e S e rv ic e
R a d io P a g in g S e rv ic e
24%
E -M a il S e rv ic e
V S A T S e rv ic e
C a b le T V N e tw o rk + In te rn e t
S a te llite T e lep h o n e S e rv ic e
51% R a d io T ru n k in g S e rv ic e
BROADBAND POLICY
Premeable
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Broadband Connectivity
• An ‘always-on’ data connection that is able to support
interactive services including Internet access and has
the capability of the minimum download speed of 256
kilo bits per second (kbps) to an individual subscriber
from the Point Of Presence (POP) of the service
provider.
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Broadband Subscribers
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Technology Options
• Optical Fibre Technologies: 4.5 lakh route kms. of optical
fibre laid by BSNL / MTNL and more than 1 lakh route
kms laid by private operators.
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Technology Options
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Technology Options
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Technology Options
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Urban & Rural Tele-density
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Mobile Subscriber base
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Fixed Subscribers Base
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PSU’s Operators Subscribers Base
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PSU’s Operators Subscribers base
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Private Operators Subscribers base
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Private Operators Subscribers base
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Average Revenue per User (ARPU)
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Revenue
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Tele-density Growth
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Tele-density Growth
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2006 & 2007
• 2006 was the year of dynamic growth for Telecom
Sector. New policies, rules, faces popped in and the
market saw a huge growth in terms of subscriber
additions. India surpassed China in monthly additions
and teledensity crossed the figure of 20.
• 2007 took from where 2006 ended and still the growth is
on as July 2007 was the highest subscriber addition in
world – 7.34 million.
• This we will include in our next part of Indian Telecom
History – Volume - 2.
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Courtesy
DOT
TRAI
VSNL
COAI
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THANK YOU
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