India Telecom Market

• Telecom Vendors performance in Indian market in 2009 (Jan-Jun)

  The first six months of 2009 made it clear that the telecom market will resue all in this recession period. Telecom operators started finalising the things and books of vendors were filled with orders. While new operators gave orders for network rollouts the existing players floated teders for network upgradation or new technology introduction.
  
  List of the Vendors based on the orders they were successfull to get from Indian Operators in the first six months of 2009

• GSM operators monthly subscriber additions in FY 2008-09

  GSM Operators added total of 96.23 subscriber last year with average monthly additions of almost 8-9 million subscribers. Airtel lead with 31.94 million subscriber addition followed by Vodafone with 24.79 million monthly additions.
  
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• CDMA operators monthly subscriber additions in FY 2008-09
  
  CDMA Operators added total of 34.06 subscriber last year with average monthly additions of almost 3-4 million subscribers. RCOM lead with 22.74 million subscriber addition followed by TTSL with 10.79 million monthly additions.
  
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• Major deals in Indian Telecom Market in 2008

  Indian Telecom market in 2008 was one of the most dynamic across the globe. New licenses issued by DOT enmarked a new era in Indian telecom. Indian market has become one of the fastest growing market in the world today. The unmatched growth in per month subscriber number forced big global telecom names to think about their entry into this market. As a result we saw big names entering Indian telecom space.
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• Telecom Vendors performance in Indian market in 2008
  
  Indian Telecom market in 2008 was one of the most dynamic across the globe. New licenses issued by DOT enmarked a new era in Indian telecom. This all resulted in increase in telcos competition with each other & we saw lots of network roll out & service introductions. The beneficiaries were the Vendors. This is a review of orders released & respective vendors getting them.
  
  List of the Vendors based on the orders they were successfull to get from Indian Operators in 2008
  

• New licenses & spectrum allocation by DOT in 2008
  
  The year 2008 added a new chapter in the Indian Telecom story. DOT issued a total of 120 new licenses for the 2G services. Indian market is one of the fastest & competitive market in the world today. The tarrifs are the lowest in the world and with new players coming in the tarrifs will reduce down further. It will be interesting to see how new players will position themselves to compete with the existing ones. Huge amount of foreign investment with global players like Etisalat, Telenor & NTT DoCoMo entering Indian market, billions of orders placed....so its all happening here. As of now no new player has started its operations so it will be interested to see the market changes when they do so. One of the reason is the slow allocation of spectrum by DOT to these companies.
  
  List of companies getting new licenses and spectrum in 2008
  
  
  
• India Mobile Policy for 3G, Mobile Number Portability and Broadband Wireless Access
  
  DOT has announced the policies for these and soon will start the procedure for implementing things related to them.
  
  

  >> 3G & WiMax

  New Guidelines

  • Spectrum will now be auctioned in two phases.
    
    
  • Bidding for broadband spectrum based on technologies such as WiMAX will be held on January 16, 2009.
    
    
  • 3G mobile services bidding will be done in second phase on February 9, 2009.
    
    
  • Revenue share of only 1 per cent on operators winning WiMAX spectrum.
    
    
  • Operators winning 3G spectrum will have to pay 2 per cent additional revenue share if they have more than 8 Mhz of 2G spectrum and 1 per cent if they have less.
    
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• TRAI recommendations for MVNO introduction in Indian Mobile sector
  
  

  MVNO concept is the next big thing which is knocing Indian Telecom door and is waiting for the passage. Virgin Mobile tie up with TATA is one such deal towards this direction but can not be exactly categorised into this category. If the government green signal to MVNO concept then may be the above deal can change its shape.

1. MVNO to be introduced as a distinct service provider with its own licensing and regulatory framework
   
   
2. MVNO to be issued a license under Indian Telegraph Act
   
   
3. Any Indian Company having a networth of Rs. 10 crore for Metro/ Category A, Rs. 5 crore for Category B and Rs. 3 crore for Category C service area, paid up capital of 10% of prescribed networth and satisfying licence conditions such as FDI, substantial equity etc., eligible to apply for MVNO licence.
   
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• Current 3G spectrum availability in different circles across India
  
  The spectrum is scarce resource in India and government is putting its best efforts to make the availability of spectrum for telcos for 2G as well as 3G services. DOT has announced for the availability of 3G spectrum in some of the circles.
  
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