CII Communique - December, 2010
CII Communique - December, 2010
CII Communique - December, 2010
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telecom<br />
sectoral synergies<br />
Enabling Information Infrastructure<br />
Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT- Madras; Yao Weimin, Sr VP, Huawei Tecommunications (India); and<br />
Sanjay Kapoor, Chairman <strong>CII</strong> National Committee on Telecom & Broadband & CEO, Bharti Airtel Ltd (India & SA)<br />
The <strong>CII</strong> Conclave on “Multidimensional<br />
Telecom Growth Building & Enabling Information<br />
Infrastructure”, held on 12-13 November in New<br />
Delhi, deliberated on the future challenges, business<br />
opportunities, and the need to exploit the advances in<br />
technology in the telecom sector.<br />
Telecom in India is turning<br />
o u t t o b e a n e s s e n t i a l<br />
service that ensures smooth<br />
functioning of citizens’ daily<br />
lives and businesses, helping<br />
them become socially and<br />
financial inclusive and globally<br />
c o m p e t i t i v e . M r S a n j a y<br />
Kapoor, Chairman, <strong>CII</strong> Telecom<br />
Committee, and Chief Executive<br />
Officer, Bharti Airtel Ltd, India &<br />
South Asia, said the Telecom<br />
industry has impacted not only<br />
job creation with multiplier effect<br />
but has also brought scale and<br />
sustainability in small and tiny<br />
entrepreneurial activities across<br />
the country. Home delivery is<br />
a thriving business model which rides solely on the<br />
telecom platform. In the future, multiple SIMs will be<br />
used to support multifarious applications hitherto not<br />
imagined, he said.<br />
Dr Jhunjhunwala advocated ease of Mergers and<br />
Acquisitions for telecom operators, as too much<br />
competition has brought down prices but is no more<br />
keeping businesses viable.<br />
The need for regulation in the handset industry, the<br />
level of QoS required for data, the question of whether<br />
there is enough spectrum for all the operators and the<br />
process of product launches in the telecom industry<br />
were discussed at the conclave.<br />
There is an imminent need for broadband infrastructure<br />
for providing all kinds of services,<br />
and therefore laying down fibre<br />
to all towers is necessary. It was<br />
discussed that there should be an<br />
environment that allows operators<br />
to share already auctioned<br />
spectrum without additional<br />
resource mobilisation on the<br />
part of the government. The<br />
need to push for more product<br />
manufacturing and IPR creation in<br />
telecommunication and emphasis<br />
on entrepreneurship support<br />
to nurture and build required<br />
ecosystem was stressed.<br />
T h e i m p a c t o f 3 G o n<br />
m-commerce and the role<br />
which telecom providers will<br />
play in Mobile-banking and the<br />
latest developments in multi-lingual applications<br />
were discussed. Mr Kapoor said that telcos can<br />
play an important support role with banks and<br />
financial institutions in achieving financial inclusion.<br />
Mr Yao Weimin, Senior Vice President, Huwaei<br />
Telecommunications, spoke about how organisations<br />
and industry can take up Social Responsibility by<br />
delivering essential services to rural India, like telemedicine<br />
and e-education.<br />
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