INDIAN TELECOM CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

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• INDIAN TELECOM CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
• THE GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT

TV Ramachandran, Director General, COAI October
16, 2007 _at_ Curtain Raiser, India Telecom 2007
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INDIA AND TELECOM INNOVATION
Never Before In The History Has Innovation
Offered Promise Of So Much To So Many In So Short
A Time Bill Gates
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CURRENT INDIAN TELECOM SCENARIO

• Skyrocketing growth 3rd largest mobile network
  in the world
• Heading towards 2nd largest
• 8 million additions a month
• Towards 10 million a month !!
• Cellular revenues growing at a healthy pace of
  60
• Lowest tariffs in the world

Mobile has become an integral part of everyday
life
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PROVIDING A PERFECT PITCH FOR RD DRIVEN MNCS

• More ideas are generated in INDIA for global
  applications and globally, Motorola is critically
  dependent on whats being done in India.
• Motorola
• Cisco Systems has filed for gt 600 Patents for
  products developed in India
• India produced nearly 31 million mobile phones in
  2006 worth about 5 billion
• In 2007, will increase by 68 in units 65 in
  value terms
• Production volumes to reach nearly 95 million
  units at a CAGR of 25 percent between 2006 and
  2011

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FUTURE GROWTH DRIVERS
Even at 500 mn in 2010, residual scope for 100
growth
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Achievement of this sector due to PPP - Forward
Looking Policies Enabling Regulation Fair
Play for all Players Responsiveness of the
sector
Natural corollary of PPP in TelCoEs
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NEED FOR TELECOM CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

• India has come a long way in Services and
  Manufacturing
• Next Steps Forward
• Capacity Building Through Knowledge to sustain a
  Planned Predictive Growth
• Create Environment of Technology Innovation
• Scope for content innovation due to imminent
  entry of 3G
• Talent Nurturing
• Mobile Info Security
• Disaster Management of Information Infrastructure
  

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BIRTH OF CONCEPT

• India Telecom 2006
• Need felt
• genesis
• Initial planning for 2-3
• Due to enthusiasm of industry and institutes, 8
  TelCoEs

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TelCoEs
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WIDE SPECTRUM OF TelCoEs
Governing Council Chairperson Secretary, DoT
Co-ordinating Centre at C-DOT
TCOE IIT Delhi
TCOE IIT Chennai
TCOE IIM Ahmedabad
TCOE IIT Guwhat/ Mumbai
Telecom Technology Management
Infrastructure Energy
Telecom Policy, Regulation, Customer Care
Rural Technology
TCOE IISc Bangalore
TCOE IIT Kanpur
TCOE IIT Kharagpur
TCOE WPC Chennai
Technology Integration, Multimedia Computational
Maths
Information Security Disaster Management
Spectrum Management
Next Generation Network Technology
Texas Instruments, India
Alphion
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KNOWLEDGE SHARING
VPN Workshop Seminar
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Whatever You Can Do, Or Dream You Can.. Begin
It. Boldness Has Genius, Power And Magic In
It. Goethe
Let us together make the TelCoEs a Grand SUCCESS
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Thank You