About Telecom Technology & Management

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Operator China Mobile China Unicom Bharti Airtel Verizon

About Telecom Technology & Management

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Subscribers Technolgy (Mn) 515.81 GSM, GPRS, EDGE TD-SCDMA 143.60 GSM, GPRS, EDGECdmaOne 113.21 GSM, GPRS, EDGE 87.70 CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0 CdmaOne, GSM GSM, EDGE GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA LTE GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS D-AMPS GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA

Ccountry China China India United States India India United States Indonesia Russia Mexico

Month Oct Oct Oct July

5 6 7 8 9 10

Reliance Com Vodafone Essar AT&T Telkomsel MTS America Movile (Telecel)

85.67 82.85 79.60 76.01 68.26 58.08

Sep Sep June June Aug June

Telecom Stats -- Telecom Top 10

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Top 10 Mobile Operators (One Country)

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Telecommunication Technology & Management

-Has

Institutional Framework for the Indian Telecommunication

Act/ Legislation Making Policy Making

Telecommunication Sector in India (P.J. Thomas, Chairman, DoT)

emerged as one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in management -In India, the telecom services have grown beyond many expectations.
- One of the worlds fastest-growing mobile markets We are the second largest wireless network in world, with over 680 million connections. -This has been achieved due to intense competition among the Telecom operators, leading to one of the most competitive Telecom tariffs in the world.
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Parliament of India
Recommendations Govt. of India (Ministry for Licensing

of Communications &IT)

TRAI

TDSAT
Dispute Resolution & Appeal for DOT & TRAI Directives

Regulation (Tariff, Interconnection, QOS)

Spectrum Wireless Planning Management & Coordination

Wing (WPC)

DOT/ Telecom Commission

Licensing

Standardization & Technical Inspection

Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC)

Type Approvals

Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)

Telecom R&D

Operators
Service Provision End Usage

Equipment Supply

Manufacturers and System Integrators

Subscribers

-As a result of liberalized FDI Policy, Indian Telecom Sector has emerged as third largest sector in country, in terms of FDI (after Services & Computer industry) with over US $ 9 billion Foreign Direct Investment till date, since April 2000. In last five years: -Urban Tele-density has risen from 26% to 128%, -Rural Tele-density has also increased from 1.73% to 27%. -GoI has set an ambitious target of achieving -Rural Tele-density of 40% by 2012, i.e. addition of over 120 million connections need to be provided in rural India in next two years. -VPT (Village Public telephones) have been already provided in 5.66 Lakh Villages, out of total 5.93 Lakh villages.

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Telecommunication Sector in India (P.J. Thomas, Chairman, DoT)

Telecommunication Technology
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-After announcement of Broadband Policy in Oct 2004, Broadband subscribers have now grown from 0.18 million to 9.45 million. -Although, it is still lower than original target of 20 million (by Dec 2010), wireless broadband is now expected to take off as 3G/BWA network rollouts are expected soon, with recent concluded auction of 3G/ BWA Spectrum. -To empower the common man in the rural/remote parts, DoT has now set target of providing Broadband coverage for all 2.5 Lakh Gram Panchayats by 2012.

emerged as one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in management -In India the telecom services have grown beyond many expectations.
-One of the worlds fastest-growing mobile markets -For example, the GSM subscriber base has crossed the much talked 100 million subscriber mark in November 2006. -This has put India in super-elite club of countries boasting to have crossed this mark.
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Telecommunication Systems Management (TSM) Recent development in telecommunication technology has created many business opportunities. However, there are many technical and managerial issues related to service providers, equipment manufacturers, regulators and users. This course deals with Telecom Technology & its Management

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Current Industry Structure

Telecommunication Systems Management (TSM) In the present business environment, an understanding of telecommunication systems is a must. The career to succeed in many other functional areas requires basic understanding of telecommunication as the convergences of IT and telecommunication has blurred the dividing line between the two.

Telecommunication Systems Management (TSM) Deal with basic understanding of telecommunication technology and its management from different perspectives: Telecom Technology its business dimensions

Nokia, Huawei,

Core technology Suppliers

Peripheral Technology Suppliers

Airtel, Reliance, BSNL

Network Operators

Users

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Evolution Of Telecom Technologies

Nordic mobile telephony in sweden, norway, denmark etc 1G
Analog Voice
GSM GPRS EDGE
115 Kbps

2.75G 2.5G 2G
Digital Voice Packet Data Intermediate Multimedia

3G
Multimedia

Telecommunication Systems Management (TSM) Telecom Technology and its business dimensions such as:
Customer perspective and Services Quality management, Competitiveness of Indian telecom sector, International telecom management, Project Management in Telecom, Brand management and marketing in telecom, Regulatory issues in Indian telecom, Business opportunities due to convergence, etc.

(3)Understanding the aspects of convergence Technology Convergence in telecom sector

Today Tomorrow

Internet

W-CDMA (UMTS)

4G

NMT

9.6 Kbps

384 Kbps

Up to 2 Mbps

TDMA TACS
9.6 Kbps

GSM/ GPRS
(Overlay) 115 Kbps

TD-SCDMA
2 Mbps?

Telephone network

IP-Network

iDEN
9.6 Kbps

iDEN PDC
9.6 Kbps (Overlay)

AMPS CDMA
14.4 Kbps / 64 Kbps

CDMA 1xRTT PHS

(IP-Based)

cdma2000
1X-EV-DV

Mobile radio network

144 Kbps

Over 2.4 Mbps

PHS

64 Kbps

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1984 - 1996+

1992 - 2000+

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2003+

2003 - 2004+
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Multimedia Access - Advantages: easy to handle reliable mobile

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Reasons for Technology Convergence

Benefits of Technology Convergence

Challenges for the Operator

Freedom of Choice Same lively, colorful, close and personal quality like natural communications Any service on any access, any device, any location, any time Dont Care Same look and feel on various devices leads to more acceptance and usage Personalized environment of attractive services to increase customer loyalty
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Bridge the gap Bridge the gap

Mobile services

Internet services New services on top e.g. WLAN, Hot Spots, Enterprise

Fixed-line services

Converged multimedia communication e.g. video-telephony, MMS, PoC New revenues with converged services e.g. organizer, info, downloads, mobile auction, chat and flirt
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Ease of Use
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