Overview:
The Indian Internet Policy and Market is a hot market. The pent up demand is enormous. Wireless technologies hold the promise of providing badly needed telecommunications quickly at low cost. This report reviews the present market and potential.
Table of ContentsExecutive Summary
1. COUNTRY BACKGROUND
1.1 Demographics
1.2 Regional Background
1.2.1 Northern Region
1.2.2 Southern Region
1.2.3 Western Region
1.2.4 Eastern Region
1.3 Population
1.4 Distribution of Wealth
1.5 Currency
1.6 Conducting Business in India
1.6.1 Indian Corporations
1.6.2 Partnerships
1.6.3 Foreign Companies Establishing Offices in India
2. Organization of government and the economic sector
2.1 The Political System
2.2 The Executive Branch
2.3 The Legislature
2.3.1 State Governments
2.3.2 Union and State Jurisdictions
2.4 The Legal System (Judiciary)
2.5 The Political Situation
2.5.1 Background
2.5.2 Current Political Situation
2.6 Economic Reforms
2.6.1 Aims of Economic Reforms
2.6.2 Liberalized Foreign Investment Policy
2.6.3 Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)
2.6.4 Import Policies
2.7 Economic Profile
2.7.1 Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
2.7.2 Fiscal Debt and Government Spending
2.7.3 Foreign Trade
2.7.4 Industry
2.7.5 The Banking and Financial System
2.7.6 Foreign investment and domestic saving
3 Organization of the telecommunications sector
3.1 Organizational Structure
3.2 Background
3.3 Teledensity
3.4 The Department of Telecommunications (DOT)
3.4.1 DOT Industrial and Economic Policies
3.4.2 Foreign Investment
3.4.3 Import Policies
3.5 Liberalization
3.5.1 History of Liberalization
3.6 New National Telecommunication Policy (NTP) of 1994
3.7 Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
4 Internet
4.1 New Internet Policy
4.1.1 Main highlights of the policy
4.1.2 Technical requirements
4.2 Licensees
4.3 Important issues raised by the new policy
4.3.1 Regulatory challenges
4.3.2 Bandwidth and international connectivity
4.3.3 Cost of leased circuits
4.6 Future outlook
4.4.1 Strengths
4.4.2 The Information Technology (IT) sector
4.4.2 Projected growth
4.5 Analysis of companies in the Internet sector (government owned and private)
